Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Munitions Board Chairman Hubert Howard, who had done his best to step up lagging stockpile procurement in his short first year (see BUSINESS), became the first Johnsonite to resign from the Defense Department. Most likely to follow: Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Griffith and Special Assistant Brigadier General Louis Renfrew, both old Johnson cronies...
...boys with me if you'd like to go. I say a little operation-it's a big operation. You will leave Haneda [the airport between Tokyo and Yokohama] at 6:30 Wednesday morning. I've got a new plane," he continued, "and I'll follow you in that." Then, pointing his black pipe at us, he said with his quiet laugh: "But you bums will go in my old plane, the Bataan...
...first round was right in range, but 500 yards to the left of the target. Gay gave the correction to the guns. This time the rounds were right on the nose. The Reds who could still move raced back up the hill to safety. Gay had his airbursts follow them...
Wild animals in "freedom," says Dr. Hediger, are not really free. They follow restricted routines punctuated by terror. Each has a "territory" or a social rank from which it cannot budge without a battle. Each has enemies, including man, from which it must constantly flee. Wild animals are often hungry, sexually frustrated, diseased. Few of them reach maturity. The lucky ones, thinks Dr. Hediger, land in well-run zoos...
...virus of poliomyelitis, one of the smallest disease-causing organisms, is less than a millionth of an inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...