Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desire, then, set down No Place To Run as a rather impressive first installment from a talented young hack suffering from a fertile imagination and not much control. But I find it difficult to do that not only because Stone does have talent as a craftsman, but also because the book irritates...
...result of an annoying squabble within the administration. Exactly which government body should guard the country against fall-out has never been precisely defined, but up to the present time, the Atomic Energy Commission has assumed that responsibility. Recently however, the Public Health Service declared that logically such control should come under its own jurisdiction. The AEC, not caring to relinquish any part of its functions, accused the Health Service of a power grab, and decided to sit tight...
Joel Lazar's conducting was vigorous but not always in full control, although he managed Honegger's tricky rhythms effectively. The orchestra, although several of the instrumentalists were very good, fell short of the mark, and their consistently poor intonation and tentative string sound detracted greatly from the musical portions. Some of the big ensembles came off well, mainly owing to the well-trained and skillful chorus...
...approved by the state, the sign would stop cars travelling north on Plympton St., between the Lampoon Building and the Gold Coast Valeteria. The DPW must approve all local traffic control measures...
...that in the future, as in the last 100 years, social reforms will do as much as doctors and drugs to eradicate preventable disease. But man, he insists, must face hard facts with hardheaded realism. Disease does not surrender unconditionally. The very sanitary techniques that did so much to control infections in the 19th century set the stage for the ravages of polio in the 20th. German measles, once universal in childhood and then only a "trivial accident," now skips many sanitized youngsters; but if a woman gets it in the first three months of pregnancy, she may have...