Word: dones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speechmaking done, Nixon escorted...
...Having done their homework well, and being of one mind, economic ministers of the Outer Seven needed only two days last week at the Swedish resort of Saltsjoebaden to agree on the essentials of their European Free Trade Association (TIME, July 27). Member nations hope to have the final draft by October and to announce their first common tariff reductions, to be effective next July. They made no bones about their real purpose: "To facilitate negotiations" with the bigger, booming Common Market Six (France, West Germany, Italy, Benelux) and thus head off a permanent division of European trade...
Motoji Hatano decided that something drastic had to be done. As president of Tokyo's Kokusai Bus Co., he could hardly ignore the fact that its 59 buses had had 22 accidents this spring-three times as many as last spring. It was the same with the other Japanese sightseeing-bus companies: a total of 51 crashes, 15 deaths, 843 injured. President Hatano's manager did some oriental-style brain-storming and came up with an idea any adman would be glad to put on the train for Westport. The idea: send the bus drivers...
Probably no man has done more to save lives threatened by cancer than Greek-born Dr. George N. Papanicolaou. 76, of Cornell University Medical College, who devised a test for cancer of the uterus and cervix by smearing mucous secretion on a glass slide and examining the stained cells under a microscope. The "Pap smear" is nc' done routinely in hundreds of U.S. laboratories, for an estimated total of 3.000,000 tests a year-most of them for healthy women wisely having regular examinations. Vast ingenuity has gone into extensions of the Pap test: aerosols to make a smoker...
Whatever she had, it was so violently admired by the plutocratic playboys of the Edwardian era that Kansas-born Belle Livingstone was celebrated in the continental press as "The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe." What is more, brags Belle, when her day as a gold digger was done, she did not dispiritedly rest on her shovel, but hurried home and dug herself a sizable niche in U.S. social history as one of the leading figures of the Prohibition era, the Texas Guinan of the champagne trade...