Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process of delving into governmental iniquity under ex-Dictator Juan Perón came to an official end last week. At a special ceremony, Vice President Isaac Rojas praised the National Investigating Committee- and as tactfully as possible explained the government's decision that the probe should now stop. A bit unhappy at the decision, Vice Admiral Leonardo McLean, the committee's zealous chief, summed up its work: the staff of about 2,500 had arrested 1,045 suspects, sent 314 cases to the courts, spent only $70,000 in 27 weeks of investigations. Its records will...
...before birth the liver builds up a supply of glycogen (a starch) for future conversion into sugar and fats (for energy). During and after birth the infant needs a lot of energy in a hurry, and since he cannot feed for several hours, the liver reverses the starch-storing process and turns the glycogen into energy. When the baby begins feeding, the liver goes on to a normal, lifelong rate of glycogen manufacture. ¶ "Such stuff as dreams are made on" brought unsuspected data from Chicago Physiologists William Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman: a person can dream for an average...
...interpreted by many as a far-ranging decree on the touchy Fifth Amendment issue. Actually, the decision had narrow application. It dealt only with the New York City charter provision-and only to the extent that Slochower had not been given a hearing and had, therefore, been denied due process of law. The opinion (Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas concurring) was, in fact, careful to point out: "This is not to say that Slochower has a constitutional right to be an associate professor of German at Brooklyn College. The state...
...describe the characters of job candidates from the squiggles they make on application blanks. But back in 1946 Trillat began a second career. "If you can study someone's handwriting and deduce ideas about his character," he reasoned, "why can't you reverse the process? By modifying his handwriting, perhaps you can modify his personality...
When the public realizes the dangers of criminal control of American labor, they can force unions, government, and business into a long-overdue co-operative effort. Even so, the process will be long and dangerous--but necessary...