Word: feb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GOLDEN TREASURY OF JOHN BETJEMAN (Spoken Arfs). In a series of dry and witty poems, read with impeccable comic pitch, the author (TIME, Feb. 2) recalls an England of "retired schoolmasters, retired colonels and handsome, healthy children'' with bodies "bursting into teens." In "amatory" mood, he sings his passion for a tennis partner...
...defenses are usually strong enough to destroy them. That healthy people have a specific immunity against anybody else's cancer has been shown in dramatic tests by investigators from Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Ohio State University on prisoner volunteers at Columbus' Ohio Penitentiary (TIME, Feb. 25, 1957)-Victims of advanced cancer have no immunity against their own or somebody else's cancer...
...imperialist revolutions and natural disasters. But last week it was facing a new threat: the wave of civic morality that is sweeping the nations of Southeast Asia with an evangelistic fervor. Imposed from the top, largely by military leaders who have taken over from fumbling and corrupt bureaucrats (TIME, Feb. 9), this Puritan outlook is also rooted in national pride. Evidences of the new morality...
...evil") and war, which can only bring "appalling destruction and ruin, and this whether the people are victor or vanquished." He urged statesmen "to try every approach" leading to "fraternal harmony of nations." Turning to another kind of harmony, the Pope hoped that the forthcoming Ecumenical Council (TIME, Feb. 9) will move non-Catholic Christians to join the Church as a "wonderful manifestation of unity . . . When we lovingly invite you to the unity of the Church, we are inviting you not to the home of a stranger but to your own, to the Father's house which belongs...
After he discovered that the captain was out of the cockpit talking to passengers in the cabin when a Pan American Boeing 707 dived 29,000 ft. on a transatlantic flight (TIME, Feb. 16), Old Pilot Quesada fined both Pan Am and the captain. He followed that up by publicly warning the Air Line Pilots Association that pilots are to stay in their cockpits with their belts fastened instead of gladhanding with the public. When the ALPA attacked this enforcement as a "childish Gestapo program," Quesada fired back a blunt answer: Obey the rules or take the matter to court...