Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MERRILL G. FARRELL Farmington, Conn...
...ready for final enactment as a constitutional amendment this week. The last constitutional safe guards enacted in South Africa's founding charter of 1909 to protect the rights of non-whites would thus be repealed. For the dispirited remnants of the once-powerful United Party, Opposition Leader J. G. N. Strauss rose to promise an appeal to the supreme court. This was not likely to come to much. Precisely in anticipation of such a move, Strydom last year added five new members to the court-all Nationalists...
...Control Engineering, W. G. Rowell of Scully Signal Co. and A. B. Van Rennes of M.I.T. describe a method that they have invented for "watching the watchman." The monitor as usual watches all operations of the machine, but when everything is going well, it does not merely sit back and give a "safe" signal. Instead it gives a rapid alternation of safe and unsafe signals. Unless this alternation continues, proving that the monitor is alert and on the job, the machine will shut itself off. If any part of the machine fails (including its readiness to shut itself...
...Toklas, 20th century Boswell, confidante, and incidentally, author of a remarkable cookbook, eventually got her can opener. When she heard of the prospective production of The Mother of Us All, she wrote Roger Graef, Eliot House junior who is staging the opera: "The opera is based on the indignation G. S. felt at the shabby way the Massachusetts abolitionists treated her. Gertrude S. considered the play clear to a literal reading...
Another bank director, George G. Tarbell, was in favor of a facade which was "modern but not extremely contemporary." He felt that the personal tastes of the directors should not completely rule the final decisions...