Word: apparentement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their dilemma resolves itself in essence into a series of perplexing questions: "Should considerations of personal friendship and the desire to shield friends from public humiliation prevail over the demands of national security?" "Do I as a teacher have greater moral and legal obligations than my fellow citizens?" "Should I...
The American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond rose at the gavel to explain what kinds of smokers get the most cases of lung cancer, and to discuss whether it does any good to quit. He and Assistant Daniel Horn drew from impressive data: the smoking and life...
Last week hope was soaring high in the Mezzogiorno. The reason: a $70 million World Bank loan, the largest European development credit granted by the bank to date. It went to Italy's Cassa per Il Mezzogiorno (Southern Development Fund), the special government agency set up in 1950 to...
¶ Lewis A. Lapham, 46, son of onetime San Francisco Mayor Roger Lapham (TIME, July 15, 1946), moved up from executive vice president to president of W. R. Grace & Co.'s shipping subsidiary, Grace Line. Lapham succeeds Cassius C. Mallory, 64, who stepped up to the Grace Line board...
High spot in the book is Bridgeman's record altitude try. Writes Bridgeman: "I have left the world . . . Every cell, fluid, muscle of my body is acutely awake. Perception is enormously exaggerated- black is blacker, white is whiter. Silence is more acute . . . Fear seems to be independent, a ghost...