Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that sounds just like Mother's trouble!" exclaimed a former Mayo Clinic secretary as she read an article on sleep seizures. Her chance observation led the clinic's doctors to a research gold mine. Her whole family, for four and possibly five generations, has been studded with men and women who kept falling asleep at meals, on the job, on Army guard duty, while playing cards-and, distressingly often, at the wheel...
With families enjoying the highest incomes in history, the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, which keeps a reliable temperature chart of consumer attitudes, spied a shift in the public mood. In the center's latest survey, out this week, the number of consumers who think the time is ripe to buy a house or used car showed a sharp upswing, and moderate upswings showed up among those who believe it is a good time to buy major household appliances and new cars, undertake large home improvements. The survey pointed out that some part of the public must...
...DeGaullist system of government is actually a "return to tradition," said Jacques Cabau, French research attache, in his speech on "France Under DeGaulle," last night at the Harvard International Seminar. The failure of Parliamentary Democracy in France endangered national unity and produced a need for a paternalistic, "guided democracy...
...fooled into accepting, instead of a normal food substance (metabolite), an analogue (close chemical kin) to fill the metabolite's place but yield no nourishment. First to use antimetabolites this way was Dr. Sidney Farber of Boston Children's Hospital and the Children's Cancer Research Foundation. Knowing that leukemic cells are avid for the vitamin folic acid, he began in 1947 to treat child victims of acute leukemia with analogues of folic acid. Lederle Laboratories sent Dr. Farber two, aminopterin and amethopterin. which soon brought about improvement in most of the children. But after weeks...
...outfit that cooked up The Four Seasons' blend of slick spectacle and lofty cuisine is Restaurant Associates Inc., a fast-rising restaurant group that specializes in putting showmanship and science into the eating business. R.A. says it carried out close to three years of "depth research" in preparing The Four Seasons. President Jerome Brody, 36, and a squad of top executives swung through Europe, the Far East, Polynesia, dipping their manicured fingers into the pots of the world's better restaurants. Bagel-waisted Vice President Joseph Baum, 38, gave his all to the cause; he gained...