Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argonne National Laboratory told the American Chemical Society how he and his colleagues had tested a chemical that flushes out strontium selectively and spares the body's calcium. Used so far only in rats (no human victims of acute radiostrontium poisoning are known), the chemical is a tasteless yellow dye, the rhodizonate salt of either sodium or potassium. Lindenbaum and his colleagues dosed their rats with the mildly radioactive strontium 85, which, for the purpose of the test, served as well as its deadlier big brother, strontium 90. Then the rats got the rhodizonate in moderate-to-huge doses...
...WITH YELLOW SHOES, by Anthony Heckstall-Smith (238 pp.; Roy; $2.75), is a modest memorial to a lonely soul: a middle-aged English bachelor with a little money, a lot of time and a proper sense of duty. Richard Forrest had no good reason for visiting Cairo just before Nasser grabbed the canal, and no sensible explanation for staying on. But after a casual acquaintance was murdered there, what else could a chap do? Not hard-case Communists, unregenerate Nazis or fanatical Arabs of the Brotherhood of Mohammed can stay this fast-moving story. Nor can they keep a muddling...
...room. To the end, Copey refused electricity--no light bulbs, no telephone. Smoke black from the lamps discolored the ceiling and, it was claimed by those who knew, an old-fashioned tub lay under Copey's bed. His abode was a landmark even from the outside; a yellow sponge dangled from his window by a string, the butt of such fond humor as this Lampoon poem...
Methodically as a mason, Gunther laid out a foundation wall of multicolored manila folders for every chapter and subsection. Into the room-long row of folders he piled notes, clippings, dozens of scrawled, yellow-paper memos-"Why so much education?", "All small talk in modern Russian novels is about nuts and bolts." Settling down at his battered Smith-Corona typewriter, across from a child's map of the world, Gunther started out with the inside chapters on the Kremlin hierarchy, plowed through what he calls "the picture stuff," i.e., travelogue chapters, tackled science and education, wound up writing...
...crowd of 300 journalists, art lovers and notables waited in a school courtyard in the small French Riviera town of Vallauris. The master, as usual unimpressed by ceremony, arrived dressed in faded corduroy pants, yellow shirt and bright orange scarf. Pablo Picasso bussed his good friend, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, on both cheeks, then shook hands with Director of French Museums Georges Salles, down from Paris for the occasion -the unveiling of Picasso's much heralded 32-by-29-ft. mural for UNESCO's new Paris headquarters. Picasso yanked the cord, pulling back the concealing curtain. The result...