Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scrantonian (geographically only), and well aware of the kinship between TIME and Bill Scranton, I was quite prepared to read a completely biased article [Oct. 19]. Your treatment of both candidates for governorship of Pennsylvania was stunningly unprejudiced...
...Eldib takes sewage as it comes from the treatment plant, still heavily contaminated with detergents, and pipes it into a vertical cylinder. Air blown through fine holes in the bottom of the cylinder stirs up billions of bubbles that rise through the sewage and attract the detergent molecules. The froth is then drawn out of the cylinder, carrying 95% of the detergent with it and also other organic contaminants that may be in the sewage. The bubbles soon collapse, and the detergent collects in a small amount of liquid that is easily treated and disposed of. It can be dumped...
...during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World. This savage traffic began, ironically, as the result of one man's compassion. In 1517 a pious priest from Haiti interceded with the Spanish King to protest the treatment of the island's gentle Indians, whom the colonists were slaughtering in droves in a futile effort to make the rest work. Moved less by mercy than the practical need for cheap labor to work Haiti's mines and plantations, the King authorized the importation of 4,000 Africans...
...parliamentary investigations that followed, slavers vied with one another in painting the slaves' happy life aboard ship. "When sailors are flogged," one piously testified, "it is always done out of hearing of the Africans so as not to disturb them." What shocked Britons almost as much as the treatment of slaves was the lot of white seamen. One captain force-fed a member of his crew on live cockroaches, and floggings regularly resulted in death. Proportionately, almdst twice as many crewmen died as slaves-their mortality rate ran to more than 20% per voyage...
...This has not kept him from treating patients in hospital research projects. He was suspended from Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital for implanting the pituitary glands of calves in the thighs of six arthritis patients. He did a research stint in Stockholm, experimenting with combinations of hormones as treatment for arthritis. Back in Canada, he mixed his Liefcort formula...