Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he was fatally stricken, the Soviet doctors diagnosed Pasternak's illness as a heart attack and only later discovered it was the result of cancer spreading to the heart muscles. By then, cancer had colonized both lungs and was advancing from his stomach through the digestive tract...
...Gogh, Night and Fog), is the acknowledged masterpiece of the New Wave of Gallic moviemakers (TIME, Nov. 16). The picture won a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival last spring and has been acclaimed in France as "a thousand films in one": an atomic horror movie, a pacifist tract, a Proustian exercise in recollection, a radioactive Romeo and Juliet. As a matter of fact, it is all these things and more-an intense, original and ambitious piece of cinema...
...Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin and Lederle Laboratories' Dr. Herald R. Cox, developers of two of three U.S. live vaccines. It is an impossible requirement, snapped Dr. Sabin, because by its very nature the oral, weakened virus is designed to multiply in the human digestive tract. It is bound to spread to unvaccinated contacts (especially close kin) of vaccinated subjects, and make some of them immune. So if the vaccine is effective, it will destroy the basis for such a comparison by protecting some of the unvaccinated...
...Development Co., a huge. San Diego real estate firm that helped build the state of Washington's Chief Joseph Dam, Los Angeles' $20 million Hyperion sewage system, has built nearly 15% of all San Diego residences, and is currently developing suburban San Carlos, a 4,000-acre tract with a projected population...
...great-granddaughter lived to present a silver gilt cup, once the property of poor mad George, to her great-grandchild-Prince Charles, present heir to the throne of England. She thus placed herself dead center in that huge tract of time between Saratoga and V-E day. Born Victoria Mary of Teck in 1867, she was called "May" by her family, and she is known to recent memory as Queen Mary, wife of George V, her second cousin once removed. With her pastel parasols, tailored suits and hats designed by some puckish confectioner, she was an anachronistic though never absurd...