Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using what they call the polydiagnostic* method of assessment, Tufts University Sociologists Edward M. Bennett and Harriet M. Goodwin set out to analyze the U.S. woman as a political creature. Before the American Sociological Society convention in Washington last week, they presented their findings in the language of Freud rather than that of Carmine De Sapio or Leonard Hall...
...bearing the medicines, sets off alone across a bridge, ignoring the fusillades that crackle from both banks of the river it spans. Then the enemies, in one of those little miracles that sometimes momentarily halt a war, recognize her as a figure of mercy transcending their strife. Both sides call for a ceasefire. Dr. Helga delivers her package to her enemies, staggers back toward her German compatriots, collapses upon the bridge. The cease-fire was ordered too late. A stray bullet-little matter whose-has mortally wounded...
...negotiating for a sizable loan from the Export-Import Bank to buy new equipment, hopes to have two turboprop airliners on its Far North routes by 1959. Since faster, bigger planes will bring higher revenues, Icelandic expects to keep bargain fares for years to come. Says Craig: "They call us cut-rate, and I'm proud...
...Gants-but on knowing himself. Contrasting "romanticism" and "classicism," the English critic T. E. Hulme once wrote: "To the one party, man's nature is, like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical." Cozzens' wise men try never to get too big for their buckets...
Headquarters Call. In San Francisco, three policeman spotted a stolen automobile, gingerly forced its driver-thief to the curb, returned the car unmarked to Police Commissioner Paul A. Bissinger...