Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...siege, prohibiting all calls to strike. Dominated by Communists and encouraged by the huge Soviet embassy in Montevideo-Russia's biggest in Latin America-the 250,000-member National Confederation of Workers last week threatened more strikes. As a starter, 145,000 students, teachers and administrative school personnel went on strike, and 18,000 persons poured into downtown Montevideo for a noisy, anti-government demonstration. If matters get out of hand, Gestido stands ready to declare another temporary state of emergency...
...course, the pubs have paid a price. Hundreds of them reported a sharp drop in business, running in some cases to as much as 30% to 40%. Brewers reported an overall decline in sales of only 4% to 6%, indicating that much of the pubs' losses went to home consumption of alcohol. At Minister Castle's local pub, the Blue Flag at Cadmore End, Buckinghamshire, Publican Ron Hall announced: "I haven't stopped her coming in, but you could say that we're not the best of friends any more." Instead of easing off, British police...
...prize for clinical research went to Dr. Robert A. Phillips, 61, director of Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory at Dacca, East Pakistan, whose treatment for cholera victims (TIME, Oct. 5, 1959) has cut their death rate from 60% in 1955 to less than 1% today. Cholera, an intestinal infection spread in food and water contaminated by human waste, does not respond to drug treatment alone, kills mainly by dehydration. The key to recovery is in replacement of fluids and salts that the patient can lose at the rate of ten gallons a day through diarrhea...
...citation in public service went to Florida's Democratic Representative Claude Pepper, 67, a congressional partisan of medical legislation for 30 years. It was Pepper, then a Senator, who co-sponsored legislation in 1937 that created the National Cancer Institute, the first of the National Institutes of Health, funded with a then grand budget of $400,000 a year. The institutes, now eight innumber, and the Bureau of Mental Health are provided with a combined yearly budget of $1.5 billion...
...last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, 24-year-old Greek Soprano Elena Suliotis went about rehearsing a concert version of Norma with the American Opera Society as if she had never heard any of this. Her attitude: "What is there to be afraid of?" She soon found out. When the lights went up for the intermission, the audience discovered in its midst not only a daunting array of singers from the past but also the diva of divas, Callas, enthroned in a corner box. Immediately the entire house turned in claque-like obeisance to Callas; galvanized...