Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Chief of Staff, flew from New York City to Mexico City and foreign residence as board chairman of Mexican Light & Power Co. Ltd., a Canada-incorporated utility that supplies about a third of Mexico's electric power. Same day, another Army notable, 2nd Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, West Point's most acclaimed all-round cadet (first captain of cadets, '58 football captain, '59 class president, "Star" man in scholarship) since Douglas MacArthur, headed for two-year expatriation in England, where as a Rhodes scholar he will study at Oxford...
...transition from provincial hoofer to Parisian headliner began in 1944 when Montand, newly arrived in Paris, happened to appear on a theater bill with Chanteuse Edith Piaf, became her protégé. With Piaf's help, he dropped synthetic American numbers like Les Plaines du Far West, began to concentrate on the authentic, dramatic vignettes that are now his stock in song ("One has to realize," says he, "that a song is a theatrical play"). For a time, Yves sang the Communist line, appeared at party rallies, specialized in social-protest numbers. But politics, he now believes...
...Alamos' Omega West is a swimming-pool-type research reactor whose fuel rods are suspended under 25 ft. of water, which acts not only as coolant and moderator but also shields its human operators from radioactivity. In the spring of 1958, physicists peering down through it saw that the water was getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding...
Many other microorganisms must have got into Omega West's deadly water; only the Pseudomonas survived. Perhaps the Pseudomonas have natural resistance to radiation. More likely, under the bombardment of Omega's radiation, normal Pseudomonas underwent mutation, producing a special strain capable of surviving in this atomic blast...
...spot study in a 50-sq. mi. section of Formosa's west coast to find the source of ''blackfoot," a locally common arterial disease that causes fingers and toes to become gangrenous; sometimes the victim loses both hands and feet...