Word: dones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There Skate's officers and men, on their second underwater voyage to the Pole (TIME, Aug. 25), conducted a solemn ceremony: they scattered the ashes of Polar Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, dead since last December, who had envisioned the possibility of journeying to the Pole by submarine. That done, Skate submerged, went on to complete a record trip of 3,090 miles and twelve days under the ice pack, in which it surfaced ten times through the ice to demonstrate its ability, as a Navy announcement put it last week, "to operate at any time of year in polar...
...latest wrinkle in the trade was all but inevitable. With everyone scrambling for pre-Columbian art, local Indians have learned to copy the originals handed to them by dealers, are selling fakes to gullible tourists as fast as they can make them. And some are so well done that even the art dealers get clipped on an occasional imitation Mayan...
Before a House Government Operations subcommittee, salty, short-fused Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover exploded with a touching plea. Unless Congress mows down the growing underbrush of Pentagon committees, he warned, "we will wind up with all committees and no work done. Our people have no time to do their work, for fighting committees. We need some protection." Lest anyone misunderstand, Rickover noted an exception: congressional committees are just dandy...
...half the mothers can take advantage of the chance to room in.) But despite the obvious success of pioneer British programs, many hospital staffs strongly oppose extending the plan. Main reason is fear of mom. Complained one nurse: "You just can't do things that have to be done, when mothers are around." Another: "Mothers can be very difficult, in some cases because the hospital atmosphere heightens their worries, and in others because they're just made that way." Against such objections, the ministry insisted that the child's emotional security comes first...
...York Curb Exchange until 1953) has mellowed since its raucous youth. From its founding, around 1850, until 1921, the exchange operated outdoors, as a noisy swarm of brokers and traders crowded Wall, Broad and Hanover Streets from 8 a.m. to sunset, in fair weather and foul. Because trading was done by flashing secret hand signals, whistling and shouting, the marks of a star broker were leathery lungs, a weatherproof body, and a canny ability to decode competitors' signals...