Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Brazil. The outfit runs 249 rural clinics, 22 hospitals, 109 city water systems, 97 sewage-disposal systems. It has broadened life expectancy from 30 to 41 years, reduced infant mortality in some areas as much as 50%, confidently plans to eliminate filariasis in two years and malaria in seven. Last week in Iquitos, Peruvian and Colombian health ministers signed a bilateral pact to eradicate small pox, malaria and yellow fever in ther parts of the Amazon basin...
...this way in bulk, said Dr. Segaloff, the bugs rebelled and turned out instead a variant called delta-1-testololactone. It was just as well: testololactone has proved to have all the virilizing properties of testosterone. But the delta1 variant, tested so far in 24 patients, proved in seven cases to be as potent as testosterone in suppressing cancer growth, and with no virilizing effects...
...Aufbau to its subscribers in 49 states and 83 foreign countries, George works 14 hours a day seven days a week in a shabby office cluttered with pictures of such old friends as Marlene Dietrich (he wrote her first biography), Albert Schweitzer, and Thomas Mann. Most of Aufbau's feature articles come from outside contributors and George does the drama and movie reviews himself. With 60% of its space devoted to ads. Aufbau turns a handsome profit, last year gave $47,700 to needy refugees...
...Voice, Too. Soprano Moffo's success at the Met caps a career that developed almost by accident. The daughter of an Italian-descended shoemaker, Anna grew up in Wayne. Pa., made her debut at seven, singing Mighty Lak' a Rose in a school assembly program. After that she sang in choirs, school recitals, at weddings and funerals, without ever taking a lesson. When she left school, she turned down a Hollywood offer because she wanted to, become a nun. Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing...
...weeks ago Plante caught a shot from the New York Rangers' Andy Bathgate full in his face. The game was delayed 25 minutes while a doctor put seven stitches in the cut on the left side of his nose. But when he skated back to his place in front of the net, Plante was wearing the mask he had previously used only in practice. Rival goalies lifted scarred eyebrows and wondered whether the mask would slow Plante's split-second performance...