Word: vitamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missing Messenger. Pernicious anemia has remained a mysterious disease despite the finding that it can be controlled (though not cured), first by liver extracts and now by vitamin B12. Cornell University's Dr. Graham Jeffries began by studying the inflammation of the stomach lining that precedes pernicious anemia. This robs the patient of a biochemical messenger which normally conveys B12 through the digestive system to the body. In patients' blood, Dr. Jeffries reported, he has found antibody of a type that attacks the stomach-lining cells...
...Vitamin Vision. Mondrian and other constructivists were forerunners of calculated geometry. But Mondrian, explains Vasarely, "was still abstracting natural forms, the sea or a tree. My plastic abstractions are composed of pure form and pure colors with no relation to natural structures at all. By 1955 I had developed a plastic alphabet of 30 simple geometric forms and 30 basic interchangeable colors." The A of his alphabet is the square, and the rest proceeds through ovals, rhombi, etc., in a code of images down to the Z shape itself. With these pictorial tools, he broadcasts winnowing waves like those...
...past her waist. Her mother binds it. "She knows just how to make the knot, but I don't," says Chrys. "It's her secret." Does it hurt? "Yes, but you get used to the pain." Does she do anything special to lessen the strain? "I eat vitamin pills-A and B-and I brush my hair a lot," she says. "And I wash it once a week like everybody else." What kind of shampoo? "That's another secret...
...enough to be her grandfather, but spry is hardly the word for the pace he sets. After four months of marriage, Joan Martin Douglas, 23, reported that she could keep up-just barely-with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65. "I'm taking vitamin pills," confessed the jurist's third wife. "Some people wondered how my husband would keep up with me, but I can't think of a minute when he isn't doing something constructive, speaking, writing, hiking or putting up storm windows." Hiking was the toughest part: "I'm all right...
...lengthening lifespan and medical wonders, death may take on connotations of failure. Whose failure, or what kind of failure, is not at all clear, but the essence of the feeling is there. As Jerome Bruner puts it, "Death today has become somehow impersonal and unnecessary, perhaps like a fatal vitamin deficiency that might have been prevented or at least delayed...