Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pact, accused the Premier of being pro-American, pro-British, and pro-imperialist. While carefully ignoring Nasser's blatant maneuvers to take over the Sudan and his newly asserted claim on more than 6,000 miles of northern territory, El Azhari spoke glowingly of the desirability of a "common defense pact" with Egypt...
...York Philharmonic for its Pension Fund Benefit, had Carnegie Hall patrons collapsing with guffaws. Unable to read music, Conductor Kaye directed some favorite classics surprisingly well, had audience and orchestra falling from their chairs by: 1) kissing two girl harpists and a bull fiddler; 2) parodying common conductorial techniques, i.e., "the coffee grinder" and "the meat chopper"; 3) arguing with his oboist over an A; 4) falling into the cellos during a crescendo. Said Kaye: "It's the greatest feeling of neurotic power in the world...
...basis of 60 cases Psychiatrist Mosse has seen at Manhattan's Lafargue Clinic and in private practice, "far more often than not this diagnosis is wrong." Without trying to pin on diagnostic labels of her own, Dr. Mosse cites children who showed behavior problems or suffered from common juvenile fantasies, only to be pushed into mental hospitals and given shock treatment, which made them worse...
Where They Come From. Why has the staph menace grown so great? Part of it is relative: other germs, once equally common and deadly, have been tamed. Part of it is that physicians, surgeons and hospital staffs have become too confident: relying on their antibiotics, they are careless about general cleanliness and even surgical asepsis (TIME, April 1). But most of the trouble is in the nature of the beast itself: Staphylococcus aureus has the greatest capacity of any known disease germ for developing strains that are resistant to one antibiotic after another...
KRESS FOUNDATION will exercise control of S. H. Kress & Co. variety-store chain. Four members of Kress's seven-man board were replaced with four foundation men. Company Chairman Rush H. Kress acceded to demands of foundation, which owns 42% of Kress common, after it threatened proxy war (TIME...