Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nervous aftermath of Russia's Sputnik I, the U.S. Government sent out an S O S to U.S. science. Needed was someone to furnish scientific advice to President Eisenhower and to bridge the gap between the scientific and governmental worlds, which had become so interdependent. Top man to answer the call: Dr. James R. Killian Jr., president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was named the President's Special...
Last week, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, doctors found a tentative answer and a disturbing charge. Toronto's Dr. Brian P.L. Moore sifted a mass of data, found that incompatibility reactions occurred at a rate ranging from i per 2,000 bottles to 1 per 10,000, with an average of 1 per 4,200. But for each obvious reaction there are at least four cases where incompatibility causes a hidden sensitization, preparing the ground for trouble with the next transfusion or the next pregnancy. So the overall risk is closer to 1 in 600, Dr. Moore concludes...
...investor." They can also find a host of critics. Many critics charge that the funds, along with other institutional buyers, have needled the roaring bull market to artificial highs, that their constant buying, chiefly of blue chips, has helped create the present shortage of stocks. The funds' answer: they hold only 3.4% of all stock on the New York Stock Exchange, and do not hoard it; they turn their shares over faster than the exchange as a whole...
...reviews. Burbled the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Best damn musical I've seen in years." Said Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "Most satisfactory musical of the season." The critical fan-farenade for what is, at best, a so-so show would be a puzzler if the answer was not blazoned on the marquee. The answer: Ethel Merman. They all love Ethel, but the love is sorely tested in her latest role as the most monstrous stage mother ever seen on stage. Gypsy is inspired by Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography, but Ecdysiast Lee remembered Mama with...
...with Brownell's charge, James Hagerty turned up (within hours) a six-year-old letter in which Truman had praised White. The episode, which Cater characterizes as "a distasteful case study in the misuse of publicity," ended by McCarthy's being given free radio and television time ostensibly to answer Truman, but in fact to attack Eisenhower...