Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact which every American responsibly concerned with U.S. foreign relations must face. A fortnight ago the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce, had to face it in a concrete form. Invited to attend the annual Venice Film Festival, she found that its program included an M-G-M film, Blackboard Jungle (TIME, March 21), which deals heavy-handedly with juvenile delinquency in U.S. big-city schools. Teenage savagery is a fact, as Al Capone and Fatty Arbuckle were facts-but they are not the U.S. Ambassador Luce did not contend that M-G-M should not have made Blackboard...
...South Dakota, various conferences have discussed such problems as teaching religion, raising more money-e.g., by the reclassification of property for tax purposes and the consolidation of school districts-and easing the teacher shortage-e.g., by encouraging more future teachers' clubs. The conferences produced figures to show that the state needs $20 million to make up for its shortage of classrooms, and that it will need $22 million more to take care of swelling enrollments by 1960. Just as significant, however, was a special study of high-school courses. In the past two years, the study revealed...
...body. He has proved that if pilots are carefully strapped into beefed-up seats and cockpits they can walk away from a large majority of crackups. He has presented his proof with argument-killing logic: his own roaring rides. Having established the practical limits of human tolerance to g forces,† he is getting ready to prove his carefully calculated theory that a jet pilot can stand the wind blast of a bail-out at Mach 3 at 40,000 ft. (about 2,000 m.p.h.), provided he is properly helmeted and harnessed tightly to an ejection seat...
...Colonel Stapp had himself taken 16 rides and had been subjected to g stresses up to 35 times the pull of gravity. Slowly, the impressive statistics were piling up. "The men at the mahogany desks," says Stapp, "thought that the human body would never take more than 18 gs. Here we were, taking double that-with no sweat...
...Midnight with Madeline (a part that features some fine burlesque by Dolores Gray), temperamentally revolts against her prospective guest of the evening, a Bronx crackpot whose claim to fame is his model of the Taj Mahal, constructed in 16 years with nothing but chewing-gum wrappers. The three ex-G.I.s are unwittingly shanghaied as substitutes for the crackpot, and from there on, Fair Weather breezes on to a stormy climax-a brawl between the good fellows and the bad fight fixers, in full view of 60 million televiewers...