Word: solids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kassem's Collaborators. As Iraq's militant Communists slipped from Kassem's favor three solid citizens took their places as the Premier's closest collaborators...
When U.S. rocket engineers talk about the bright possibilities of solid-fuel rockets, they always have to pause over one big requirement: how to control the fuel's burning rate. A current system is to shape the charge, measure the ingredients-and hope. This week Acoustica Associates, Inc. of Plainview, N.Y. announced an initial $85,188 contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to explore a radical new control that is as exciting as it is simple. The company thinks that it can handle solid fuels by filling the rocket with sound-plain, ordinary noise...
Polaris. The Navy's highly touted solid-fuel Polaris, designed to be fired from submerged atomic submarines, has run into its share of troubles after a period of heady development. Last week's test-Polaris was destroyed in the air by the safety officer when it began to fly erratically and its two stages separated prematurely. Departing from the usual hedging, the Navy admitted that the launching was a "complete failure"-but added that it was the first such failure in eleven tries. Actually. Polaris has exploded four times, has been really successful on only three shots...
...tall, vivacious microbiologist turned physician and working in Baltimore for the National Institutes of Health. As so often happens in medical research, she did not get what she was looking for, but she got something better. Many of the mice she injected with Gross's "leukemia virus" got solid tumors, mainly in the parotid (salivary) glands. (Dr. Heller's theory: the Gross material had contained two viruses.) Dr. Stewart teamed with the NIH's Dr. Bernice E. Eddy to grow the solid-tumor virus in tissue cultures of monkey kidney cells (as polio virus is grown...
Effective Drugs. Despite admitted drawbacks, chemotherapy has won a solid foothold. Dr. Charles Gordon Zubrod, 45, NCI's clinical director, responsible for all cancer patients treated in NIH's huge Clinical Center (TIME, July 20, 1953), . lists eight forms of the disease that can often be set back by drugs, sometimes for as long as two or three years. These are: acute leukemia in children, chronic lymphocytic and myeloid leukemia in adults, Hodgkin's disease, rhabdomyosarcoma (a rare muscle cancer), Wilms's tumor (in the kidney, present at birth), cancer of the adrenal glands, and choriocarcinoma...