Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fields of poppies have bloomed for centuries in the remote, jungle-clad valleys of northern Laos where five nations-Laos. Red China, Burma. Thailand and Communist North Viet Nam-meet in a tangle of ill-defined boundaries. The local Meos and kindred tribesmen delicately pierce the flowering buds, extract the sticky raw opium. Some of it they use themselves: when a Meo child complains of an ache, his mother may blow opium smoke into his mouth to ease the pain; for Meo adults, opium smoking provides a goofing-off pleasure that is their substitute for the combined attractions of alcohol...
...months sooner than with plaster casts. It helps particularly with older people whose bones are slow to heal. While the yellowish bone glue has produced no toxic or foreign-matter reactions in patients thus far, Drs. Mandarino and Salvatore are still studying it for potential long-term ill effects...
Paul J. Misner, Superintendent of Schools in Glencoe, Ill., leads the Institute, with the assistance of several members of the Faculty of Education, including Dean Keppel, and Professor Herold C. Hunt and Matthew P. Gaffney...
These in-service programs for school administrators have been sponsored for several years by the School of Education. This year developments will be described in the public schools of Long Beach and Ossining, N.Y.; Arlington, Va.; Glencoe, Ill.; Lexington and Newton, Mass.; and Springfield...
...attempt to produce a great work of cinematic art, it is a sometimes ponderous failure. The fault is not entirely Producer Goldwyn's. The original Broadway musical ('TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), a good try at the great American folk opera, is troubled with an awkward, ill-paced plot-the last act falls flat because all the best tunes are used up in the early part of the show. The libretto, by Charleston-born Novelist DuBose Heyward, is full of the sort of amiable condescension toward the "darkies" that used to pass for progressiveness in the South. What really...