Word: three
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upstairs. Buchanan ordered a limousine for the ride to the airport, picked up some gauze bandages at a drugstore, knocked on Young's door-and walked right into the arms of three Castro intelligence agents, who had tracked Young to his hideaway. It was only then that Buchanan was certain that his man was really Austin Frank Young...
...week's end Jim Buchanan, hungry although not mistreated, was still behind bars, and Evelyn Hill, safely back in Miami, was being kept under wraps by the Herald. Clearly Fidel Castro, who ordered the arrest of three other newsmen last week,*was making a point in his own theatrical way: "foreign" reporters are not welcome in Fidel Castro's Cuba...
...color portrait of a camel wearing a nose cone and placidly taking a metabolism test. The table of contents scarcely suggests light reading: "Nucleic Acids and Proteins," "Differentiation in Social Amoebae," "The Proto-Castles of Sardinia." Even the department of games beginning on page 166 is strictly for mathematicians: three computer programers named Ames, Baker and Coombs set out to decide who pays for the beer, but instead of flipping a coin they apply algebraic group theory. (Baker pays...
...past. Readership dwindled; revenue shrank to a trickle. By 1947, when Gerard Piel, then science editor of LIFE (and grandson of the late Michael Piel, co-founder of New York's Piel Bros, brewery), persuaded two friends to join him in buying Scientific American, about all the three got for their $40,000 were 5,000 solid subscribers, a Manhattan office and a lustrous 102-year-old name. Piel had a theory, and his partners-Dennis Flanagan, also a LIFE editor, and Management Consultant Donald H. Miller Jr.-were willing to test it. In the dawn light...
...Three Prices. The subcommittee needled the industry again when it produced Seymour N. Blackman, executive secretary of Premo Pharmaceutical Laboratories of South Hackensack, NJ. Blackman estimated that the U.S. public could save $750 million a year if physicians would use scientific instead of brand names in prescriptions. This year Premo sold the Government prednisone tablets at $20.01 per thousand, while Merck & Co. offered to supply them to the Government at $63.70 per thousand and sold them to druggists at $179, for a retail price...