Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower had the sniffles himself, and the chronic bursitis in his right shoulder was acting up enough to call for heat treatment at Walter Reed Hospital.* And when Butler's remarks reached him, his under-collar temperature shot up. Within a few hours Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty had passed the word to New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges: Ike thought Butler's comment about Mamie was a political foul...
...Caesarean section on a Vietnamese peasant woman. Their operating table was covered with a G.I. blanket and a strip of white cotton cloth torn from a CARE package; their patient was secured by wires nailed to the side of the table and lifted above her body by wedges of C-ration cans. Their light consisted of one electric bulb and half a dozen flashlights trained upon the incision by Filipino nurses. One nurse was assigned to keep off the insects that swarmed around the light bulb. Four hours after the operation began, a Vietnamese baby boy was born...
...Manhattan, a rare species of old bottle was put on permanent display in an American glassmaking exhibit of the New York Historical Society. Its embossed inscription: "E. C. Booz's Old Cabin Whiskey." With a new spot in the public's eye, the cabin-shaped vessel, its neck resembling a chimney, was likely to further the popular misconception that E.C.'s surname spawned the most common synonym for strong spirits...
...prepare and distribute background material for each case study; before seminar time they go over the topic with the guest speaker. Tape-recorded "testimony" is later transcribed, edited and distibuted for future study. Among the speakers thus far: R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Slessor, Army Lieut. General (ret.) Albert C. Wedemeyer, Vice Admiral Matthias B. Gardner, U.S.N...
...Other Side. Then the bankers heard an opposite view. George C. Smith, economist for the F. W. Dodge Corp., said that the low rate of new-family formation reflects the Depression's low birth rate, predicted that the new-family-formation rate will soon pick up and keep the demand for new housing at upwards 1,000,000 yearly for the next five years. Said Smith: "I would expect to find some local problems, some temporary gluts and vacancies . . . But I don't believe, and I can't find any other construction economist who believes, that...