Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City v. Country. Cigarette smoking increases with a movement from rural areas to bigger towns and large cities; so does the incidence of lung cancer. When Hammond and Horn adjusted their figures to allow for the smoking difference (50% of rural men smoke cigarettes, 62½% of big-city men), they found that the lung-cancer death rate was still one-third higher in the cities. This might be a reflection of better diagnosis in major medical centers, or a result of big-city air pollution...
...fever had Los Angeles in a sweat. To the joy of some and the rage of many, the city council last week voted to allow drilling in some residential areas. With Mayor Norris Poulson's approval yet to come, the council backed dezoning of the city-owned Rancho golf course and the private Hillcrest Country Club near Beverly Hills. Thundered the Los Angeles Examiner, decrying the eagerness of adjacent citizens to lease their lawns and barbecue pits: "Is spoliation of these homes to be forced upon the owners for peanuts per lot in return...
...controversy raged on, oilmen rushed around soothing fears of drilling fuss and muss, tried to round up more homeowners' leases to meet the 51% required for dezoning. They made small progress in Beverly Hills, which refuses to allow the specter of industry in its well-manicured oasis of luxury and wealth. There oilmen found only 220 citizens willing to lease. The remaining 31,000 have enough money already, or belong to the right oil-golf clubs near...
...vacant chair with another Teamster, General Secretary-Treasurer John English, 68, a onetime coal-wagon driver who has been a Teamster 52 years, has never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that once belonged-lock, stock and cash drawer-to Dave Beck...
...Ellis, a Jewish couple, to keep Hildy McCoy, whom they had adopted as a baby from her unwed Roman Catholic mother (TIME, April 1), was halted by Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins. At Tallahassee, after hearing more than two hours of testimony, Collins announced that he would not allow the Ellises to be extradited to Massachusetts, where they face a charge of kidnaping Hildy. Background of the charge: a few weeks after she signed the adoption papers, Hildy's mother, Marjorie McCoy, said she had not known that the Ellises were Jewish, began fighting to have Hildy turned...