Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more to conquer Israel. U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, avoiding the inflamed question of repatriation altogether, suggests that to get the refugees off the dole, UNRWA's vocational training program should be greatly expanded. Then if UNRWA disappears, a new agency, possibly with World Bank financial backing, should give refugees jobs building such public works as dams and irrigation schemes in the Arab countries in which they now live. Jordan and the United Arab Republic have approved the plan "in principle...
...good. But then the moviemakers feel obliged to give their black Adam a white Eve (Inger Stevens), and all at once the grand drama of humanity's survival collapses into an irrelevant wrangle about racial discrimination that has no more real significance, under the circumstances of the story, than a hotfoot in hell. Adam and Eve fall in love, but Adam refuses to accept the fact. He cannot begin a new world because he cannot forget the old; he cannot let social injustice die with the society that fostered it. At this point the moviemakers introduce a particularly amiable...
...transfusions were caused not by technical errors but by simple human failures-mixing up specimen tubes, mislabeling and similar clerical errors. Worst of all, Dr. Moore charged that in more than half the cases with fatal reactions, the transfusion was not necessary or even desirable. Many physicians, he suggests, give one bottle to be on the safe side. One bottle is rarely, if ever, enough to do any good-but may easily be enough to do harm...
...projects beckon. The city of Detroit has asked him how to give sculptural shape to 60 million cubic yards of earth excavated in the construction of new underpasses and highway cut-throughs. "Imagine it, a pile of earth two miles long, a hundred yards wide, and five stories tall!" he says, eyes glittering. At the other end of the weight scale, he is also starting new works in aluminum and balsa wood. "Why not?" he asks. "Anything can be sculpture, even air in balloons. The form is the main thing...
...drops out in the first year, he loses most of his $500. The funds claim that this big "front-end load" is an incentive to steady saving, but some funds think that such juicy commissions are completely unjustified. Says John Dalenz, vice president of Calvin Bullock, Ltd.: "Why not give those salesmen a blackjack and let them take your entire wallet...