Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhodes scholarships for study at Oxford were four years old in 1907 when the Pennsylvania selection committee chose a Harvardman with top honors but a black skin. In hot protest. Southern winners bearded the trustees in London, but Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes had clearly provided that no one be "qualified or disqualified on account of his race or religious opinions." Off to Oxford went Alain Locke, the first U.S. Negro Rhodesman. who was a noted philosophy professor at Howard University before his death nine years ago. Not until last week had any other U.S. Negro won a Rhodes scholarship...
...woman who ran a pet shop in a Los Angeles suburb cut her right middle finger on the metal rim of a tropical-fish tank, she thought nothing of it. The cut seemed to be clean, and it healed quickly. But within a month, abscesses formed under the skin on the back of her finger and hand. They were not painful, but they were unsightly, and occasionally one of them burst and oozed a sticky fluid until a new scab formed. The woman's 18-year-old son cut his finger on the same tank, and soon...
...pool: 650 ft. long, 110 ft. wide at the deep end. It was kept at a sybaritic 82°-85° by piping in water from a hot mineral spring. Trouble was, swimmers chafed their elbows on the pool's rough sides, and bacilli moved into the broken skin. There were at least 262 cases of "sore elbow" in the area. Doctors who tried antibiotics, anti-tuberculosis drugs, X ray, vitamins and plastic surgery did no better than nature. Most of the sores healed after a few months. But after they healed, 82% of the victims showed positive reactions...
...studying the cells in the hypoglossus (tongue-controlling nerve) of the female cat when he realized that a little dark spot in each nucleus was never found in the cells of males. Then he learned that this was true of all mammals, including man. Now, a tiny pinch of skin or mucous membrane, examined under the microscope, will show the true, or nuclear, sex. Only such a test will indicate whether a child with a sex-chromosome abnormality should be raised as a boy or a girl, and what surgery is indicated. With abnormal chromosomes, mental retardation is often present...
...Klerman divided the effects caused by psilocybin, LSD, and mescaline into immediate and long-range. Among the immediate effects are changes in the subjects pulse, skin temperature, reflexes, etc., "considerable" [mental] confusion, and an alteration in "the person's capacity to perceive the world...