Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen who would attend the conventions (see PRESS). Early this year, Don Bermingham, assistant to LIFE'S managing editor, was put in charge of convention arrangements for all TIME Inc. publications, and inherited, among other things, the job of finding hotel space. The situation looked almost hopeless when he visited Chicago in February. But by last week, after numerous wires, letters and phone calls to hotel managers, Bermingham had finally rounded up enough rooms (in six hotels not taken over by the convention committees) for all of TIME'S convention coverage team...
Hoover's basic convictions have not changed, although they have suffered many interpretations. His enemies attach him as a hopeless reactionary. ("That old cuss word 'reactionary,' " he notes.) His friends see him as a last hope of sensible liberalism. He is a large, whitehaired man, who appears to be a little disconsolate in the company of strangers. His voice is low and husky, and as he talks, he abstractly fingers a couple of worn coins. As on an old coin, the familiar face has grown a little indistinct. Heavily framed spectacles sometimes slip down...
Massage is tricky too, reported Chicago's Dr. Hugo R. Rony: in fact, massaging just the fat parts of the body may make those parts bigger. Surgery is dangerous. And exercise is hopeless: to take off one pound, said Dr. Ralph E. De Forest, a fat man would have to walk 36 miles, or do 2,400 pushups, or climb the Washington Monument 48 times. After losing some weight by dieting, the patient should take a little gentle exercise, such as walking or golf, and then go on to swimming. One trouble with heavy exercise: it boosts the appetite...
...getting out of hand. Sometimes a gentle jab with the gold (yang) or silver (yin) needle will do the trick; often it takes a bit of both. Testimony from Tunis. Only last month, said a French delegate, he had been asked to treat a bull suffering from "a hopeless case of sterility." After the bull got the needles, he went charging off in pursuit of four cows. And, said the puncturist, two of the cows are already in calf. A Tunisian specialist reported the case of a man, aged 30, suffering from depression, pains in the legs and sexual debility...
Time & again the Legion has been bled white, but the world's hopeless and desperate have always poured in to swell its numbers. The recruit applying at Sidi-bel-Abbès needs no identification papers, and may, if he chooses, keep his past to himself. If he is over 5 ft. 1 in., well set up and seemingly aged between 18 and 42, he will be accepted. Czarist refugees from Russia, Spanish Communists fleeing Franco, ex-members of Rommel's Afrika Corps, embezzlers and down-and-outs from all parts of the globe have sought sanctuary...