Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near week's end President Eisenhower, surveying storm's results-twelve deaths, 5,000 people doused out of their homes, flash-estimate damage of $12 million to $100 million-declared California a federal disaster area...
...Though Johns Hopkins' Dr. Winston H. Price recently announced a vaccine that has shown promise against a virus strain prevalent in the Baltimore area (TIME, Sept...
...dealers' associations; the Justice Department is investigating others throughout the nation. While packing is not illegal when performed by individual dealers, the jury will investigate complaints of dealer associations' price fixing, which is against the law. The Government suspects that dealers who sell one line are forming area associations to make secret fixes of prices of new cars and trade-ins. By agreeing on the size of the pack, they eliminate competition among themselves...
...powerful beyond comprehension, it is useless to go on developing bigger and deadlier specimens. But Teller points out that the U.S.'s purpose in testing nuclear weapons is not to make them bigger, but to make them smaller, more versatile and less dangerous to people outside the target area. Starting with the assumption that the West absolutely needs nuclear weapons to deter or defeat Communist aggression, he holds that it would be "completely inexcusable" to fail to push ahead with development of "clean" nuclear weapons with little or no radioactive fallout...
...badly hurt, the car was wrecked. Wrathfully. the chief returned to the dealer and demanded a new car because, he said, the wrecked one had been bewitched. As an expert witness he brought along a witch doctor, who corroborated every word. To preserve his good will in the area, the harassed dealer had no recourse but to give the chief a new car-and wonder what would happen to the auto insurance market in Guin...