Word: swaffield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...microscope is too new to have made any significant contributions yet to medicine. Tests are being conducted continuously, and the results still amaze the experimenters. Operator of the machine is young, good-looking Miss Marian Swaffield, a Wellesley-trained expert in cell biology. She and others are working on projects sponsored jointly by the Office of Naval Research and the American Cancer Society...
...view a specimen in the instrument, Miss Swaffield places it on the microscope stage and presses a button. A minute later she sees a full-color view of the object as it would look if her eyes were tuned in for the short ultraviolet rays...
...Total Warfare. "The cardinal sin of a football official," says Swaffield, "is to be out of position." At the Army-Navy game, his position will be directly behind the offensive team, where he can watch the play develop and follow it downfield, "on top of it" all the way. Each of the other three officials has his standard starting spot: the umpire behind the defensive line, the head linesman sighting along the line of scrimmage for offside violations, the field judge back of the defensive secondary to watch for kicks, forward-pass plays and downfield interference...
Rule No. 1 for a football official, says Swaffield, "is to make an immediate decision and never take any back talk. You have to act with confidence and calmness. The official who bellows at the boys just makes them antagonistic." Swaffield prefers to kid the players along, make them loosen up and remember that football is just a game, not total warfare...
...time, Swaffield has been hauled off the field on a stretcher, swung at by an aroused coach and hooted by hundreds of thousands of football partisans when he stepped off unpopular penalties. Despite all this, Swaffield would not swap his Saturday-afternoon workouts for anything he can think of. "It's a lot of fun," he says. "I like the game. I like the boys. I like the atmosphere. I find it a relaxation from the office...