Word: successes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty Punctures. Most striking success in getting around the antibody reaction-at least for the time being-was reported by France's Dr. Henri Jammet to the United Nations in Manhattan. His subjects were six atomic scientists (five men and a woman) who had been exposed to normally fatal radiation in a reactor accident at Vinca, Yugoslavia's equivalent of Oak Ridge. The patients were flown to Paris, lodged in the Hopital Curie. The mildest case, estimated to have absorbed 400 r., got better with conventional treatment-blood transfusions, special diet, rigorous protection against infection. The other five...
...developed, the outraged party was not Macmillan, but Gaitskell himself. Cried he: "This is the grossest travesty of what I said in endeavoring to explain to him-not, I fear, with much success-how our party system differed from the American." After some coaching by his editors, Buchwald grudgingly apologized: "I am sorry that anything I have written should have given offense to Gaitskell, for whom I formed a high regard. I was writing as a columnist and not as a political commentator. I did not think for one moment that anyone would take the article literally." But to inquiring...
Conibear & Success. "Rowing," says Ebright, "is a strenuous sport, though there is no jarring and no contact. It requires persistence and mental courage. Those that stay with it acquire some of that mental courage...
...part of the success was due to the government's happy idea of "Volkskapitalisten" (people's capitalists), and spreading the stock among as many people as possible. Purchasers were limited to five shares apiece; only those with incomes of less than $3,810 a year could subscribe. By tempting the purses of middle-class citizens, the government hopes both to keep them from socialism and to tap the $9.3 billion West Germans have locked up in small savings accounts. The next issue will probably be the giant Viag heavy-industry holding company (coal, aluminum, steel, copper, electric power...
Since the sport requires techniques much more skilled than most, coach Jim Lentz has a headache in preparing for Governor Dummer. As assistant coach Hal Loucheim said yesterday, "The success or failure of the team depends on how fast the new players adapt to the game...