Word: scientists
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...warns onetime University of Chicago Political Scientist Laurin L. Henry in Presidential Transitions-a detailed history of the last four party changes (1916, 1920, 1932, 1952) in the U.S. presidency. But, mainly due to Henry, this week's winner will get sage advice from Washington's nonpartisan Brookings Institution, which is publishing Henry's book as part of a unique effort to educate the President-elect...
...diseases are more mysterious than viral hepatitis-a liver inflammation for which there is no known cure, caused by at least two elusive viruses that no scientist has ever seen. Operating under a dozen aliases (e.g., bilious attack, acute yellow atrophy), hepatitis has occasionally been confused with such unrelated ailments as malaria and mononucleosis, was once believed to be a penalty for excessive drinking. During World War II hepatitis was epidemic in the armed forces of the major combatants as well as in many civilian populations, and more than 170,000 cases were reported in the U.S. Army alone. Because...
...Point. For five hours Mrs. Harvey's attorney, huge (238 Ibs.) Andrew Rankin, 36, hammered at the calm, moderate Dr. Evans. Suppose, he asked, that the stocking found around Mrs. Knight's throat had not been stretched. Would the cause of death be certain? "No," replied the scientist. Then Rankin moved in on Witness Clift, the government biologist who had rashly admitted that he was an "expert on stocking strangulation cases." "Did you ever ask if that stocking had been stretched?" he thundered. With a sigh. Dr. Clift replied that he had not. Had the stocking really looked...
Australia's crisp Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 61, is the ideal scientist: his curiosity continually leads him into new areas of study, and his determination usually keeps him in each long enough to come up with answers. Eleven years ago. when Burnet began to concentrate on the immunological intolerance of the human body -rejection by one body of invading material from another-he already was an authority on influenza, leukemia and viruses. His efforts in these fields won him a U.S. Lasker Award, appointment by Queen Elizabeth to Britain's Order of Merit,* and a reputation so high...
...want to reduce the amount of crime committed by adolescents." Thus the program is not primarily interested in causing delinquents to conform with American middle-class ideals and may even employ methods which the middle-class would not approve. "If the kids hang out in bar-rooms, the scientist will just have to go into the bar-room," Slack said. "If necessary to gain their confidence we might even buy loud jackets for a gang. In fact, the laboratory will often find itself in the position of using the minor vices to cut down on the major ones." Slack realizes...