Word: root
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philip C. Jessup, currently an associate of the Rockefeller Foundation and a famed theorist on international law whose practical experience dates back to the days of the League of Nations, where he assisted crusty old Elihu Root in dealings with the League's Permanent Court of International Justice. Jessup's career suffered a setback during the McCarthy heyday when the Senate, on the strength of a 1951 Internal Security Subcommittee investigation, withheld confirmation of his appointment as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. (Senators objected to his connections with the Red-infiltrated Institute of Pacific Relations...
...Wash Your Hands." Infectious hepatitis may be forestalled if gamma globulin is given while the disease is incubating, but gamma globulin shots are painful, costly and scarce. The PHS's protective advice: "Wash your hands." Antibiotics have no effect, and once the disease takes root, doctors can do nothing but put their patients to bed, forbid alcohol, treat their symptoms and feed them a nutritious, vitamin-rich diet. In severe cases, ACTH and cortisonelike drugs may help to prevent coma and clear up jaundice...
...brothers who had married two Williamses who were the granddaughters of a Munson-it did not actually open until 1935, and for years was nothing more than a couple of Victorian buildings housing the vague beginnings of an art collection. But in 1955, sparked by the late Edward Wales Root, son of Elihu Root, who later willed the institute his collection of 217 topflight 20th century American paintings, the institute's five directors pushed ahead with longstanding plans to expand. Running down a list of top U.S. architects, they finally settled on Manhattan's famed Philip Johnson (TIME...
From the sidewalk, Herrera's new bank is hard to distinguish from all-the other international financial agencies that root their initials deep in the bureaucratic soil of Washington. IADB's planned capitalization is $959,476,000; by far the biggest share ($450 million) will come from the U.S. with the rest to be contributed by 19 other hemisphere republics* (see chart...
...Many Americans. When the questioning turned to NATO, De Gaulle showed the irritable petulance of a man who was not getting his way. Attacking the integration of NATO military forces, the root principle on which the alliance has based its military strategy, De Gaulle dismissed it as "a system in which, in fact, everything is under the command of the Americans and in which the Americans decide on the use of the principal weapons -in other words, the atomic weapons. But in ten years there have been many changes. France has regained its balance and its thrust and . . . has commenced...