Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Getulio Vargas was in trouble. Every new clue to the assassination of an Air Force major and the shooting of Editor Carlos Lacerda (TIME, Aug. 16) seemed to point straight to the presidential palace. First the driver of the getaway cab identified a longtime Vargas bodyguard as one of the gunmen, but the man fled the palace before police could pick him up. Then angry air force officers, who staged their own investigation, seized another gunman and leaked a report that he claimed to have done the deed on order of Luthero Vargas, son of the President...
BOAC is buying eight used Boeing Stratocruisers and seven used Lockheed Constellations to replace its grounded fleet of De Havilland Comets. Newest clue to the cause of the Comet's trouble: pressure tests on a Comet fuselage reportedly caused it to split along one side, indicating that it will have to be strengthened to stand flights...
Eisenhower, who has until July 27 to make a decision, last week gave a clue to his intentions. He overruled a Tariff Commission recommendation that he raise the tariff and set quotas on groundfish fillets (cod, flounder, etc.), now being used in the fast-growing new product, fish sticks (TIME, May 17). Said Eisenhower: higher tariffs and quotas "would hamper and limit the development of the market." But if Ike overrules the commission on watches, the Administration may decide to give the watchmakers more defense orders to make up for their lost watch business...
Damaged Goods. In Toledo, three youths arrested for stealing a car told Inspector Anthony A. Bosch that he should take action against the owner because the windshield wipers didn't work, the speedometer showed 94 when they were really doing 85, and the brakes were "awful." Clue. In Del Paso Heights, Calif., after being robbed of $1,470 by a man and a girl. Filling Station Attendant L. B. Rothwell offered police one solid clue: "She was very, very well-built-I mean, she had one of the best figures I've ever seen." Psychic...
...doctors have not even a clue to a possible cure. A new and versatile drug, chlorpromazine, helps to control the attacks of vomiting that might otherwise last for several days each week. Beyond that, the best that the doctors can do is help the parents to establish a rigid routine in which the unhappy children can feel secure, with a minimum of occasions for emotional outbursts. Parents of dysautonomia victims have banded together to exchange notes on their children's progress and hints on how to handle them. They have raised $5,000 for research...