Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begin to express my disagreement with Governor Orval Faubus' actions of late, but inciting prejudices because of a man's background can certainly be no more commendable than inciting prejudices because of a man's skin pigmentation...
During a ten-day recess in the Little Rock court proceedings. Ronald Davies hurried home to attend a daughter's wedding ("I got there by the skin of my teeth, thank God"). His wife Mildred, who had been keeping "the radio blaring so I'll know whether they've lynched him," noticed that he had lost weight, that his collars were loose around his throat. She noticed something else: when Roman Catholic Ronald Davies knelt for prayer at his bedside, as he has done every night of his life, he remained on his knees longer than usual...
...pants and swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank of compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into the water. The mask leaked, and the water was so muddy that he "couldn...
...spread, an allergist in Philadelphia raised the possibility that greatly reduced vaccine doses can supply adequate protection if injected into the skin instead of under it. Writing in Philadelphia Medicine, Dr. Louis Tuft of Temple University reports that, on the basis of limited experiments by Walter Reed's Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one-tenth the present dose given intracutaneously produces approximately the same antibody response as the present recommended dose given subcutaneously. Suggested reason: vaccine injected into the skin is absorbed more slowly, and cells have more time to respond...
Beneath the Skin. Visiting newsmen at the Cape last week got their basic information on the missile-beat regulars-the half-dozen Florida missile buffs who call themselves bird watchers and profit from their pastime as year-round string correspondents for wire services, magazines, a few dailies and the TV networks. Though Defense Secretary Wilson has long promised to take newsmen on a chaperoned tour of the test center, about the only outsiders who have been allowed inside the gate have been local politicians. However, the Air Force has not yet restricted picture taking from the nearby public beaches...