Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warsaw's freedom-minded people. While Nixon in his brief arrival speech was drawing smiles from Polish officials with a tactful mention of Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover's Polish birthplace, Makowa Village, and recalling that two Polish glass blowers had been among the first settlers at Jamestown, Va., the excluded crowds waved and shouted beyond the airport gates. And when Nixon's Russian ZIS limousine started out of Babice toward the city, all semblance of formality disappeared...
Word trickled from the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, W. Va. that Maine-born Mildred Gillars. 58, bohemian-inclined oddball who achieved notoriety as Axis Sally, apparently wants to remain locked up. Mildred used to amuse Allied troops in World War II with English-language propaganda broadcasts from Germany. Typical pitch for defection: "Throw down those little old guns and toddle off home. There's no getting the Germans down!" Mildred, if she lives so long, will be sprung in 1979, not counting the ten years off that she could get for good behavior. But it was learned...
...hardest hit were the year's first epidemic areas. Kansas City, Mo. and Des Moines (TIME, July 13). Near epidemic rates were noted in Little Rock, Ark., Wichita, Kans., Lincoln, Neb., Montgomery, Ala. and Oklahoma City. Clusters of cases occurred in New Haven, Conn., Yonkers, N.Y., Charleston, W. Va. and Nashville, Tenn. True to the early-season pattern, outbreaks were mainly in slum areas. Though many victims had had one or two shots of vaccine, few had had the three-dose course, fewer still the fourth (booster) shot now recommended...
Recently Dr. Frank Donald Drake of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va. theorized that Jupiter's radio waves do not come from the atmosphere at all but from a vast Jovian version of the double doughnut of Van Allen radiation that surrounds the earth. Ionized particles from the sun zigzagging back and forth in Jupiter's magnetic field must be sending out "synchrotron radiation" like the circling particles in a synchrotron. The theory alerts future space explorers to steer well clear of Jupiter. If their ship should cruise too close, they might be fried...
GEORGE S. WOOD JR. Alexandria, Va...