Word: bracings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OTHER SIDE OF THE SKY (245 pp.) -Arthur C. Clarke-Harcourt, Brace...
Nothing Left? Last week, little Anne Gottsdanker was in Alameda County Superior Court; she was paralyzed in both legs, had a heavy brace on one. Randy Phipps dangled a severely disabled left arm. For 27 days, a jury of eight women and four men under Judge Thomas J. Ledwich had heard reams of technical testimony to help them decide: Was the children's polio caused by the vaccine? Was there live virus in the vaccine? If so, was Cutter negligent in letting it get through? Was there, with every ampoule of vaccine, an "implied warranty" that the preparation...
Make It Tough. Such was the case last week when Moderator Bud Collyer introduced each of three men as "Thomas Carpenter, West Point cadet." One imposter was actually a Coast Guard ensign, the other a truck driver who had learned to brace his back in the Marine Corps. Both had spent the previous day at West Point, boning up on campus customs, getting regulation haircuts and uniforms fitted. Three of the panelists guessed the truck driver, an act he greeted with one of the most triumphant smiles ever flashed on the TV screen. Another time the panel had to pick...
...Radcliffe hockey team placed two of its members on the all-college team at the annual Wellesley hockey playday Saturday. Halfbacks Ann Brace and Judy Fisher made the first team while Louise Bickford, fullback, was chosen to play on the second team, and Lyssa McSherry, forward, won honorable mention...
...West's bombers and bases were already useless. "If you study our latest proposals, you will no longer find any mention of control posts at airfields ... It is useless to create control posts to watch obsolete airplanes." He developed the point with even more emphasis to a brace of visiting British M.P.s. "Bombers are obsolete," he said. "You might as well throw them on the fire. You cannot send human flesh and blood to fight things like that." To keep up the psychological momentum, the Russians announced at week's end the successful testing of a new hydrogen...