Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jackrabbits than humans. Sharp cinder cones and bare-ribbed buttes thrust out of stone-black lava flows. The Big Lost River sinks without a trace into its black, broken ground. The place is 20 miles from the Craters of the Moon, 90 miles from the River of No Return. Except for 20,000 acres of desert grazing land, the government holds title to the entire area...
...Another question is also asked. Is time on our side? This is not a question that can be answered except within strict limits. We have certainly not an unlimited period of time before a settlement should be achieved. The utmost vigilance should be practiced, but I do not think myself that violent or precipitate action should be taken now. War is not inevitable. The Germans have a wise saying, 'The trees do not grow up to the sky.' Often something happens to turn or mitigate the course of events...
...They might have destroyed it except that: 1) the hotel is government-owned and its murals cannot be altered without approval of the three-man committee on mural paintings; 2) the committee consists of Siqueiros, Orozco and Rivera...
...patients except the "acutely disturbed" will see the nightly programs. As a precaution against extra-critical reactions, the TV screens are covered by non-shatterable Plexiglas and the sets encased in steel "tamperproof" cabinets. Carlin's patients like comedy shows. Western films are banned (gunplay overstimulates), but drama shows are all right if they are not too dramatic. Carlin's only rule: his patients must not see "anything depressing or anything to cause excitement." So far, he reports with satisfaction, most TV programs do not violate this rule...
Zenith Radio stirred up a high wind and some heavy dust when it advertised that all TV sets - except Zenith's - were in danger of becoming obsolete (TIME, March 21). Last week, the wind was dying and the dust settling. In a Baltimore speech, FCC Chairman Wayne Coy announced: "I think the question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing...