Word: heel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heel-Dragging. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 90 to 2-with only Texas Republican John Tower and Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse voting against it. Morse, although long known as one of labor's most vociferous champions, denounced the railway unions in a scathing Senate speech. Cried he: "I have never seen the kind of political lobby in operation that I have seen in recent days on the part of the railroad brotherhoods. [They] must take the full responsibility for the adoption of the first compulsory arbitration law in the history of Congress. The carriers have...
Novelist Saul Bellow's first play Upper Depths is a comedy about a celebrated TV comedian who has serious aspirations (no date set). Chester Morris and Signe Hasso are in something called The Tender Heel-about a modern Achilles, of course, set in a Florida fishing village (Oct. 21). Man on Ice confronts an anthropologist with a Neanderthal in a cave. Director John Gerstad (The Seven Year Itch) has yet to pick an actor for either role, but the latter should be a snap (February). One half-cast comedy is The Owl and the Pussycat, by Wilton Manhoff...
...Massachusetts, just before a newborn baby is taken home from the hospital he is given a novel goodby: a doctor takes hold of him and jabs a lancet into his heel. From the resulting tiny puncture, the doctor squeezes three drops of blood, one each into circles printed on a piece of filter paper. With a midget bandage stuck on his heel, the baby is ready to leave. There is still one more formality: the mother gets a leaflet explaining the purpose of the jab in the heel and why she should have it repeated when the baby...
...maternity services in Massachusetts now do the heel test before discharging a baby. But the child may then be no more than four days old, which is a little too early for PKU to be detected with certainty. Hence the advice to the mother: take the month-old baby to a pediatrician for a second test. In case the mother has no pediatrician, or feels she cannot afford to use one, the health department gives her an alternative. Along with the explanatory leaflet the mother gets some filter paper, with instructions to put a piece inside the baby...
...your July 19 issue, criticizing the film Jason and the Argonauts, you state: "And they have dreamed up monsters Jason never saw, including a steam-powered King Kong, built of bronze, with a drain plug in his heel." This monster is genuine and belongs to the myth of the Argonauts. In his well-known The Greek Myths, Robert Graves writes: "The Argonauts reached Crete, where they were prevented from landing by Talos the bronze sentinel, a creation of Hephaestus, who pelted the Argo with rocks, as was his custom. Medea called sweetly to this monster . . . and, while he slept...