Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snug Harbor. In Whangarei, N.Z., cold-sober Detective Val Edwards saw two greenish eyes staring up at him from inside a tide-carried gin bottle, was about to head for the nearest bar himself when the bottle broke and an octopus emerged...
...remedies, but also as research tools. His new theory, based on observations of thousands of patients: it is neither a simple excess nor a simple deficit of adrenal hormones that triggers the onset or recurrence of rheumatoid arthritis and related diseases. It is, he asserted, a "turn of the tide"-a change in the circulating hydrocortisone from abnormally high to low levels-that does the damage...
...hydrocortisone output goes up sharply in the early morning hours to a peak around 6 a.m., then falls gradually to a nighttime resting level. In a rheumatoid arthritis victim, this pattern is generally reversed. Lacking adaptive ability, the patient reacts with a flare-up of disease when the cortisone tide ebbs. This may happen after delivery to a woman who has been free of arthritis symptoms during pregnancy. The letdown phenomenon is also seen in patients after long-term cortisone treatment...
South Africa, said Verwoerd, will welcome whites who flee from lands that come under African rule, "because they . . . are the best immigrants," but his country would never surrender to the black tide. Apartheid was the only way Verwoerd saw, and he begged the opposition United Party to rally behind his policies in toto. He was to be disappointed in this, but could claim another victory of sorts last week. The South African government's Bantu Education department ruled that its officials no longer may shake hands with Africans they meet on official business. To get around any awkward encounters...
Africa, because the oil companies are caught between the rising tide of Arab nationalism and the intense competition from the newest fields. The development of France's Saharan oil fields (TIME, Aug. 17) will cut into the European market for Mideast oil; in addition, Russia is shipping oil not only into Western Europe, but through the Bosporus into Egypt and North Africa. For these reasons, new oil concessions are being granted all over the Middle East. Examples: ¶ In Yemen the American Overseas Investment Corp. was exploring a 10,000-sq.-mi. concession in the northwestern coastal plain...