Word: successes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Success to date of the Radcliffe Development Fund has exceeded the most optimistic expectations," Robert I. Hunneman '28, National Chairman of the Fund, announced recently. The Fund, which aims for $10 million in ten years, has obtained over $5.4 million in less than five years...
...recent report to parents and friends, Hunneman termed the recent increase of gifts to the Fund, "unprecented progress," and a certain indication of ultimate success. Even in the two "usually inactive" months of the summer, donations added $144,000, he explained...
...atmosphere. Its researchers do not talk lightly about bases on the moon or armed satellites keeping watch on the earth. J.P.L.'s emphasis is on reliability, but sometimes one of its shots misbehaves. Then it issues no cheer ful announcement explaining how the failure was really a useful success. "It didn't work," say J.P.L. men, candidly. "We are upset about...
...Dramatic Success. Namru-2 scored one of its most striking successes in fighting cholera outbreaks in East Pakistan and Thailand. Drugs are of little value against the disease, which kills mainly by causing a tremendous loss of body fluids; in the acute diarrhea stage, as much as four gallons may be lost in a single day. Measuring the victim's need for fluids and body salts usually requires costly and complex electronic gadgets, but Namru-2 medics adapted an inexpensive Rockefeller Institute technique, found that they could learn what they needed by putting a few drops of blood into...
There is very little doctors can do about it. One promising vaccine against "B"-type viruses developed at Johns Hopkins University (TIME, March 4, 1957) has not yet proved its worth; the few vaccines against "A" encephalitis forms are still laboratory curiosities. Nor have health authorities often had success in wiping out the mosquito vectors. In some cases where encephalitis-carrying insects in a given area were wiped out, it is suspected that the virus simply sought out new vectors...