Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia have agreed to make public their experiments with fusion for power. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission released a 216-page book giving an excellent history of Project Sherwood, its fusion program. Papers presented at Geneva brought the account up to the minute...
...reason was apparent. Not only did Marcus hold, at last report, 50,000 of Artloom's 504,982 outstanding shares, but the Manhattan brokerage firm of Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., of which Marcus is a partner, was reported to have had registered 225,000 shares for its own account and its customers'. The buying had not only sent up the price but had put Marcus and associates in a strong position to squeeze the short sellers, who, knowing the actual value of Artloom from its balance sheet, had sold 35,900 shares of stock short...
...Plain Account. To skeptics who doubt that courts can ever control passions between nations, A.B.A. discussion of integration rulings was a lesson, for it demonstrated the faith of U.S. lawyers in law as the means of achieving racial justice in the face of awesome strain. In one of the plainest accounts yet of the precedents that, case by case, led the Supreme Court to overturn the separate-but-equal doctrine (Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896), Attorney General William P. Rogers calmly laid down the law, left no doubt that defiant acts against integration would again be handled firmly. "The ultimate issue...
...quiz shows fixed? The question agitates millions of TV viewers to whom the mind-rending programs have become not only a favorite pastime but almost a national institution. For an inside account of how one of the shows-the popular Dotto-was bounced off the air for downright crookedness, see SHOW BUSINESS, Scandal of the Quizzes. That story follows other reports by TIME'S new section that have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served...
...losses. Others, like Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter, which has opened its clubhouse to 320 weddings so far this year, scout around for parties, conventions and tournaments, anything to make a dollar. Even some of the oldest clubs X-ray a prospective member's bank account first, his social position second. Says a member of the very exclusive Denver Country Club: "It is true that some of our nice members are the biggest stinkers in town. But heavens, we do not know this to be officially true...