Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area alone (luckily, no deaths have yet resulted). The board fanned out its entire force of inspectors, confiscated 6,290 sticks from Chicago novelty shops and taverns. It picked up more from recent visitors to Haiti, including 60 from an accountant who spent all week phoning friends to get back the 40 other sticks he gave away as presents. The Haitian Public Health Service also confiscated voodoo swizzle sticks at the source, but nobody knows how many are still hexing U.S. drinkers...
...Back from a one-week official visit to Russia, Sir John Cockcroft, in charge of research for Britain's Atomic Energy Authority, reported that the Russians are working hard on the problem of controlled fusion. He estimated that the situation is about "level pegging" between the Russians on one side, the British and Americans on the other. The Russians have an experimental machine which is virtually the twin of Britain's famous Zeta. But they built it in six months, while Britain needed two years. They have also constructed a "mirror machine," a U.S. specialty which is another...
After every coach has been polled and every sportswriter has made his choice, there remains one man with the decisive voice. He is the pro scout. Others may nominate, but he must choose. Necessarily dispassionate, professionally unimpressed with headlines, he must assess a boy's football worth and back his judgment with money. So advised by those who decide which of Saturday's heroes will play next year for Sunday's paycheck, TIME'S choice for All-America...
...Williams, 27, Michigan State; 6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs. Senior. Major: restaurant management. Drafted by the Los Angeles Rams back in 1956 on the strength of his play while serving a hitch in the Navy; so hefty and formidable on defense that opponents run plays away from him whenever possible...
...task was the formidable one of carrying through on the structural problems, making a concrete edifice that would appear not only airy but also monumental and imposing. Placing a building on stilts (pilotis) has been modern architectural fashion ever since France's Le Corbusier introduced it back in the 1920s. But rarely has a column in concrete had such handsome treatment as Nervi evolved for the 72 paired columns that hold the seven-story Secretariat some 16 ft. in the air. Tapered from a rectangular cross section at the top to a near oval at the base, they have...