Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speak with equal authority on both subjects, since agencies that are responsible for the development of atomic weapons (AEC, Department of Defense) have different objectives from groups that are concerned primarily with the control of disease (e.g., the Public Health Service). Nonetheless, the scientists found agreement in several areas: fallout patterns vary in different parts of the world; debris comes to earth more rapidly than was once thought. And some new information was made public...
...family. The Chris-Craft business itself is a closely knit family enterprise. It was founded in 1894 by Harsen's grandfather, Christopher Columbus Smith, when he installed a naphtha-gas engine in a homemade rowboat and began selling rides. Today, 54 members of the Smith family still firmly control and share in the direction of the company he started...
...Haven, Conn., three Protestant clergymen filed a suit in Superior Court to contest the constitutionality of Connecticut's 79-year-old law forbidding the spread of birth control information. The law, originally coupled with a ban on the sale, distribution or printing of obscene literature, has been under attack for years by physicians and their patients, but is regularly kept in force by the state senate, strongly supported by the large urban concentrations of Roman Catholic constituents. The New Haven ministers -the Rev. C. Lawson Willard of Trinity Episcopal Church, Luther R. Livingston of Bethesda Lutheran Church, and George...
...school district of Aldine, Texas, on the outskirts of Houston, is a spectacular example of money over mind. Two years ago, the Aldine taxpayers' association got full control of the seven-man school board, and nothing but penny-pinching grief has resulted since. The Aldine district (pop. 45,000) has had three school superintendents in two years, turned over 9% of its students to Houston to save money. Last summer the board cut the proposed school tax from $1.58 per $100 property assessment to $1.35. Result: the town's twelve schools (9,000 students) temporarily lost accreditation: after...
...approaches to the control of a variety of diseases, using chemical variants of the body's natural hormones, were reported last week by research teams from Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute...