Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...please all the people. Some people can't be pleased. If I have to please everybody, I don't want the goddam job. (Later, to a friend): If there's one thing they could chop off from the congressional job, it should be this post-office stuff. It's murder...
...origin. Then a young (31) researcher just starting in at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, went to work on a sick Plymouth Rock hen. He took material from a tumor on the bird's breast, ground it ultrafine to smash the very cells, filtered the stuff through silica so that not even a broken cell could pass, and injected the liquid into healthy chickens. They soon developed cancers of the same type (sarcoma) as the original...
...Reds. In sharp contrast to these alert, aggressive techniques, the Japanese press has abdicated its responsibility to espouse, attack or even examine the variety of political opinions that are the stuff of democracy. It is in the grip of impartiality gone haywire. Only two of the nation's papers-the daily Communist Akahata (circ. 30,000) and the thrice-monthly Socialist Shakai Shimpo (circ. 80,000)-advance any creed. The rest of the Japanese press has only one policy: to attack the government. The rationalization is that the government is the press's traditional enemy, must be fought...
...Spartan Stuff. To prepare for the oldsters whose sheer numbers will revolutionize not only the practice of medicine but also the world's social, political and economic structure, gerontologists turn both to their test tubes and to individuals like Amos Alonzo Stagg. From him and the men on nearby rungs of time's ladder they hope to learn what are the common denominators in longevity-and, more especially, in useful longevity. For they subscribe to the motto: "Not just to add years to life, but to add life to years...
During high school days Stagg read about the youths of Sparta-"particularly the boy who hid a fox in his shirt and never batted an eye when the animal bit into his vitals. That book put Spartan stuff in me." For lack of foxes, Stagg decided that he had to deny himself, to give up something that he cherished. The something was coffee. He has never tasted it since. It was at this time, too-and Stagg remembers the date: May 23, 1877 -that this son of a devout Presbyterian family formally joined the church and decided...