Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page, Royster makes high finance and big business friendly and folksy. He reduces economic intricacies to homilies anyone can understand. He takes the mystery out of Wall Street and makes it seem almost a neighborly kind of place. He is capable of acute, even eloquent analysis, but in his column, he compares Lyndon Johnson to Tom Sawyer's speechifying Uncle Silas, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry to Carrie Nation, the fellow who picked his pocket on the subway to the tax-and-spend Federal Government. A week and a half ago, he was elected president of the American Society...
...which he won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for "warmth, simplicity and understanding of the basic outlook of the American people." He was named editor in 1958 and put in charge of the editorial page. Though he still sets policy, he writes few editorials nowadays. Instead, he concentrates on his column "Thinking Things Over," which he writes when the mood strikes him. "An editorial is a formal presentation," he says. "In my column, I can spin my wheels a little. I try to sound like a neighbor talking...
Hard-headed Joseph Alsop has had his say on last week's teach-in. In a syndicated column datelined "Cambridge," which appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe under the headline "Harvard Teach-in Misguided," he labeled the participants "breast-beaters who had never been there [Viet Nam]" and chided them as Ivory Tower observers who "never bothered to inform themselves about grim little Ho Chi Minh's brilliant success as a cold-headed murder of his early resistance comrades." He concluded that "perhaps American progression [sic] needs to be returned to its former preoccupation with hard facts...
...university had tried parts of such an operation on 33 cadavers. They found that while nerves, blood vessels and other soft structures were difficult enough to cut through, the worst obstacle was an important but little-known bone, the clivus, which balances on the very top of the spinal column to form a pivot for the skull. There was only one way to get past the clivus, and that was to cut a window in it. To make this possible, a whole trayful of special instruments had to be designed and built. Those instruments were ready when the young baker...
...Snapping Column. General Motors is experimenting with wired seat belts that must be buckled before the ignition system will work, and with green taillights that turn red when the brakes are applied and thus give a sharper light contrast on braking than at present. The Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, which does work for all of the auto companies, has suggested removing the glove compartment to do away with a potentially dangerous obstacle to the front-seat passenger in case of a crash, and protecting the driver with a steering column that would snap in the middle upon impact. Others have proposed...