Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size (pop. 45,000), the Wisconsin city of She-boygan-"the greatest little town in the world"-may well be the most hate-ridden community in the U.S. Passing on the street, men who used to be coworkers, neighbors and friends now glare at each other in deep-frozen enmity. At night, normally law-abiding citizens vent their gnawing hatred against their enemies in acts of vandalism: slashing automobile tires, scattering nails in driveways, hurling glass jars filled with paint through house windows. Sheboygan's hate reaches even to the children: an everyday sight is a tight-lipped child...
While physicians were learning to make the best use of heparin, Agriculturist Karl Paul Link and fellow researchers at the University of Wisconsin discovered another potent anticoagulant, dicoumarin, in rotted sweet clover (TIME, Feb. 14, 1944), which had been killing cattle. It is still widely used for long-term treatment of thrombosis patients, because it can be given handily by mouth. But the Wisconsin labs have synthesized more than 100 related substances, and one of these, Link suggested, would make a safe and deadly rat poison. He was right. Named warfarin,* it is usually applied to bait grain. Unsuspecting rats...
...from warfare, but from the initials of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, plus the -arin ending of the coumarin family...
...handle the U.S. mediation effort the State Department last week named tall, leathery Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, 63, one of the State Department's three career ambassadors (equals five-star military rank). An old hand at apparently hopeless diplomatic assignments, Wisconsin-born Robert Murphy was sent to North Africa early in World War II to persuade the proconsuls of Vichy France they must not seriously oppose the impending U.S.-British invasion. After the war, he played a leading role in the settlement of the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Late last week, with the quiet...
...Philip Dunham Reed, 58, board chairman of General Electric Co. for 19 years, will step down at G.E.'s annual meeting April 23, retire when he reaches 60 next year. A handsome man and a fluent speaker, Reed is an engineer (Wisconsin '21) and a lawyer (Fordham '24), became G.E.'s youngest chairman of the board, served in Washington and London in World War II, has since concentrated on G.E.'s international affairs...