Word: selman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itiveness" as one of the prime requisites for achievement. More sophisticated researchers have kept alive the tradition of the patient scientist. Luther Burbank spent 16 years developing an edible cactus for cattle, and during his experiments, by his own estimate, had a million spines painfully pierce his skin. Dr. Selman A. Waksman and his researchers spent four years analyzing 100,000 soil microorganisms before isolating streptomycin. Today, the legendary, lonely experimenter is increasingly giving way to teams working on a variety of crash projects under the "systems approach." Not only team work but the computer is drastically hurrying the pace...
...Burton Selman, a third-year student in the Law School, was hit by a car behind Hastings Hall while walking to the library late last night. He was admitted to Stillman Infirmary at 11:35 p.m. The doctor on duty reported that he was not seriously injured...
...coup. Then, overnight, loyal army units and police swooped down on Camp Rashid. The five Baathist pilots were rounded up and executed. Colonel El Jabouri and most of his officers of the 4th Armored Brigade were clapped in jail. Baathist ex-Premier Hassan Bakr was hustled to Selman fortress, deep in the southern desert, and mercilessly grilled. He took full responsibility for the plot and implicated other Baathist leaders at home and abroad. In Baghdad alone, 3,000 Baathists were imprisoned...
...Selman Waksman, 75, Nobel-prizewinning antibiotics pioneer, in Montevideo's American Hospital after removal of a perforated appendix (despite fears of allergy caused by prolonged contact, doctors successfully used streptomycin, which he helped discover); General Lemuel Shepherd, 67, retired U.S. Marine Corps commandant, in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md., with a broken arm and possible concussion after being thrown by his horse; Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, in Otis Air Force Base Hospital with pneumonia after his 10-ft. sailboat capsized off Martha's Vineyard. A poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while his son Joshua...
Among the Summer School students who contributed to the Summer News were: Elizabeth Bell, Margaret Snow, Kenneth T. Pearlman, Mimi Kay, Jane Meenes, Richmond Crinkley, Burton Selman, Elinor Bachrach, Alvin P. Sanoff, and Nadine Payn...