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Silk that doesn't come from worms, wool that doesn't come from sheep, and man-made skin and hair that doesn't grow on humans can now be produced by a process announced by Robert B. Woodward, associate professor of chemistry, this week in the current issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society...
...familiar: the dead air, the unnatural darkness, the faint smell of dust. People in Woodward and the other towns of the pan-flat Oklahoma-Texas wheat belt (which lost over 150 citizens in the disastrous twister of April 9) shivered when they saw the new storm coming last week. They assumed that they were still on the main line and dived for storm cellars. They were understandably hasty-the twister struck 40 miles south in tiny Leedey, tore it apart and killed...
John E. Rexine, of 11 Woodward Park St., Dorchester...
...welcome heard round the hemisphere. This week, Mexican President Miguel Aleman was due north on a return call. To keep U.S. face, Washington's plain citizens would have to step out of character and match, or better, the Mexican enthusiasm. The Protocol Division's patient, able Stanley Woodward was worried. He called on the Army, Navy, Marines, school officials, the Washington Board of Trade and even New York's master greeter, Grover Whalen, to plan a spectacle that Latin American and even Hollywood itself might whistle...
...telephone workers of Woodward, Okla., the phone strike ended the moment they could dig out from the debris of last fortnight's tornado (TiME, April 21). While union officials ordered workers to ignore the emergency and stay on strike, 30 union operators rushed back to their jobs. Last week they made the strike's end official, sent in their resignations with a blistering telegram: "Girls refuse to stop. Will work as long as needed. . . . Would be ashamed of a union which would put up pickets in a disaster like this...