Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleased to see TIME report [June 2] that European railroads are not surrendering passenger service to airline competition. Rail passengers in Europe get low-cost, high-comfort travel on luxury trains at fast schedules. The same combination would quickly whittle down the inflated $400 million passenger-train losses claimed by U.S. railroads, and save the U.S. passenger train from extinction...
...luncheon meeting in New York's Waldorf-Astoria on the day the fighting started, $1,000,000 a minute was pledged during one quarter-hour. That night in Chicago, another $2.5 million was raised. Next night in Atlanta, $1.1 million more was forthcoming. The pace was so fast that officials often had no idea how much they had collected. In New York, where the United Jewish Appeal set up an Israel Emergency Fund, Executive Vice President Herbert Friedman jotted down a flood of big-money pledges on odd scraps of office memo paper. "This," he said, "is a hell...
...varieties of penicillin have a unique disadvantage: about one in a hundred patients who get them by injection becomes sensitized, so that his next shot may produce a severe reaction marked by rash, fever, swollen glands and pain in the joints. In a few cases, the response is so fast and catastrophic that it is called anaphylactic shock, a violent reaction usually associated with the introduction of foreign protein into the system. A patient thus afflicted may die within minutes...
Pusey's citation for Marjolin called the former French and European economic officer a "courageous patriot, thoughtful economist undeterred by competing national interests, he holds fast to the vision of a strong European community." Marolin, former secretary general of the Organization for European Economic Corporation, is expected to speak at the Alumni Exercises this afternoon...
...them, Carole Adams, is in the infirmary." They published an elaborate history of their dealings with Mrs. Bunting, in which they tried to annotate her practice of dealing in bad faith. In the newspapers, Mrs. Bunting came across as a hard-hearted administrator, "maintaining silence in face of the fast" and professing her inability to "do anything, although they're perfectly free to express their opinion." Catherine Williston, acting dean of the College, is said to have come to a meeting with the strikers, begged them to give up "in her most sarcastic voice," and then, lifting her fingers...