Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome last week statesmen of six European nations assembled in a vast, frescoed hall atop Capitoline Hill. All about them were reminders of the age when Europe all the way from Hadrian's Wall in the south of Scotland to Roman outposts on the Black Sea acknowledged the law of the Caesars. Before them on a damask-covered table lay the latest instruments for reunifying Europe-the treaties that would establish the Western European Common Market and the European Atomic Energy Community...
Within 15 years or so, under the first treaty, there will be no tariff walls between the six nations, and a common tariff rate will be set up between them and the rest of the world (TIME, Jan. 28); under the second treaty the six will enter the nuclear age together in one big cooperative (Euratom) of nuclear research and production...
...age of missile warfare arrived in Western Europe last week, unheralded and unannounced, but not unnoticed. The first to notice it, understandably enough, were the Russians...
...Lilly & Co., which made two-thirds of all vaccine previously used, is only now getting all its virus pots cooking again. Other manufacturers are in similar plight. Surgeon General Leroy Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service suggested limiting shots to the under-20 age group, plus pregnant women, until the shortage eased. This would cut the number of unvaccinated eligibles to 23 million. But most city and county health departments could not meet even this goal: from Massachusetts to Illinois, Colorado and California, would-be vaccinees were all set to roll up their sleeves only to be told, "Sorry...
...great drive to get 58 million more Americans under the age of 40 vaccinated against polio before the 1957 epidemic season (TIME, March 18) was stalled in its tracks. The difficulty-familiar in the troubled history of polio vaccination since 1954 - was the off -again, on-again supply of vaccine. Last year the vaccine was first scarce, then adequate, then overabundant; at year's end it was backing up in producers' pipelines. By a drastic failure of coordination between industry and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the manufacturers cut back production just when HEW, backed...