Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only last spring, the Tories enjoyed an astonishing 25% lead over Labor in the opinion polls. Last week a new poll by London's Opinion Research Centre showed that their lead has dwindled to a scant 4%. According to the latest Gallup poll, 43% of the country is satisfied with Wilson-his highest rating in that survey since...
...center of the cyclamate hassle was Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, a veteran FDA research scientist who, since 1966, has been testing cyclamate on chicken embryos. Of a total of 4,000 embryos injected, 15% have shown obvious deformities: feet attached directly to the hip, toes fused together, "flipper" legs, malformed spines and missing pelvises. An earlier FDA test had shown chromosome breakage in rats that were injected with cyclohexylamine, a metabolic product of cyclamate. Concluded Dr. Verrett, "I don't recommend cyclamate for chicks, and I don't recommend it for people." After discussing the results of her work...
Finally, in 1965, she started three years of research on Mary, digging through libraries in England, France and Scotland and revisiting most of the sites of Mary's life. During the third year, pregnant with her sixth child, she sometimes toppled over when lifting heavy index files in libraries, and once fainted in the British Museum. Six weeks after the birth of the child, she sat down in a little study partitioned off from her bedroom and in seven months wrote the 250,000-word manuscript. Drafts in progress were pinned to her husband's pillow at night...
...following is the text of a request from Harvey Brooks, chairman of the subcommittee created by the Faculty Committee on Research to study possible Faculty participation in the Cambridge Project...
...Richard G. Leahy, assistant dean of the Faculty for Resources and Planning, said that the contribution from a foreign government to a research project in the United States was "a virtually unique occurrence at Harvard...