Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside a U.S. ferret satellite flashing around the earth at 17,000 m.p.h., supersensitive instruments intercept and flick back to Virginia a radio message between Moscow and a Soviet submarine in the Pacific. In Laos, an American listens attentively to the words of a cocktail waiter, then slips him a bar of silver. In an office of the U.S. embassy in Bonn, a rotund Sovietologist digests a stack of reports that may originate from any one of a thousand sources -a barber in East Berlin, a whorehouse madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern European propaganda...
...Brooke's ancestry, like that of many other American Negroes, is lost in the eugenic mists of miscegenation between the Negro mistress-servant and the 18th century Southern squirearchy. The Senator believes that his paternal great-grandfather was probably a slave who took his surname from plantation owners in Virginia. Brooke's father doggedly worked his way through the Howard University School of Law, was employed for years as a Veterans Administration attorney in Washington. His mother Helen was the driving force in the upbringing of Eddie and his older sister Helene. At public gatherings, Brooke introduces his mother...
...mayor wants federal help in building a town sewage-treatment plant, West Virginia's Governor Hulett Smith pointed out, he may pick from five federal agencies and from five different sets of standards. If he addresses his letter to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, he gets only 30% of the cost of the project. But if he mails it to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he may hit something akin to the jackpot-a full...
...University of Virginia's Surgeon Leslie E. Rudolf has tried a number of variations, including supercooling with DMSO, under different oxygen pressures, to reduce the cell's metabolism. Dr. Rudolf believes that ways of reducing the metabolism still further may provide the key to preservation of a single whole organ. Even that comparatively modest achievement, starting with a live organ, still lies in a distant future. The prospect of restoring function to a whole human body, with dozens of organs and cell types, which must first be brought back to life, is even more remote...
...great verbal contemporaries-Swift, Pope and Defoe. "The proper study of mankind is man," wrote Pope; Hogarth agreed in paint. Satire was his sword-and just how sharp it was can be seen in the current exhibition of 110 paintings, prints and drawings at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the biggest public showing of Hogarth in U.S. history...