Word: yellows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, Ahmad Matin Daftary, Premier Mohammed Mossadeq's son-in-law and chief strategist of the Majlis temporary Oil Nationalization Board, loped along the corridors of Anglo-Iranian's low, yellow brick headquarters in Khorramshahr, twelve miles from Abadan. An associate, Nassir Gholi Ardalan, hurried behind. Beaming, Daftary said: "We're moving into our new offices, upstairs." They marched into the rooms of General Manager Eric Drake, who had gone to Basra, Iraq, 40 miles away, because he feared arrest on trumped-up "sabotage" charges. In Drake's office, they confronted Assistant General Manager...
Bedizened with flags and bunting, the dredge Manhattan, a $600,000 gift to Siam from the ECA, last week lay alongside a Bangkok wharf. After yellow-robed Buddhist priests chanted prayers, Siam's Premier Phibun Songgram, clad in gleaming white, made a formal speech accepting the dredge from the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires. Grouped around Phibun were the fashionably dressed ladies & gentlemen of Bangkok's diplomatic corps. The first inkling of trouble came when a fluttery British lady in long gloves and a floppy picture hat was approached by a smooth-shaven young Siamese marine...
...endlessly flowing paper is controlled by colored tags and big "buck-slips." Congressional letters, of which the Pentagon gets about 300 a day, get a yellow "expedite" tag; an "urgent" tag is red, and one "rush-rush" marker is known as "the green hornet." An expert use of the buckslip-a small routing slip on which higher authority checks off directions such as "for action," "please brief for me," etc. -is an essential Pentagon skill. The classic story is one of a newly arrived Navy commander, snowed under with accumulating papers, who stumped over to an old hand behind...
...Kinsey of the penguin world is a New Zealand ornithologist named Lancelot Eric Richdale. For ten breeding seasons he watched colonies of yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) on the coast of New Zealand's South Island. He made friends with the birds, attached identifying bands to their legs, and spied with a telescope upon their domestic affairs. In a new book, Sexual Behavior in Penguins (University of Kansas Press; $5), he tells what he learned about their lives and loves, "marriages" and "divorces...
...extracted a protein called opsin from the eyes of freshly killed animals and mixed it with vitamin A and two enzymes (organic catalysts): alcohol oxidase (from horse livers) and cozymase (from yeast). When this mixture is placed in the dark, the enzymes convert the vitamin A to retinene, a yellow pigment. Then the retinene combines with the opsin to form bright red rhodopsin...