Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kiss-and-tell TV contestants of the ill-famed quiz shows [Oct. 19]: it takes at least two to make a bargain, crooked or otherwise...
...Symington testimonial dinner in Missouri-with Brown as the featured speaker and most favored veep. ¶In Norman, Okla., oil-rich Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr (himself a Democratic presidential hopeful in 1952) was quick to announce his support of Colleague Lyndon Johnson's candidacy. ¶ In Peoria, Ill., Lawyer Stephen Mitchell, Democratic National Committee chairman during Adlai Stevenson's 1952 campaign, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois, even though he faces a head-on collision with the state's Democratic boss, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, or Daley...
Concern started soon after Richard S. Morse, the Army's civilian Director of Research and Development, took his job last June. None of the VIPs had suffered any ill effects; neither did human volunteers who ate the foods for short periods. But experimental animals put on a long-term diet of irradiated foods had shown some alarming symptoms. Rats developed abnormal eyes, or bled, or died before their time. Bitches bore smaller-than-normal litters. Mice developed enlarged left auricles in their hearts, which interfered with their breathing and sometimes burst...
Elsewhere in this collection, Mailer speculates coyly about what future Ph.D. candidates will say of him, shoots back, wadded into spitballs, most of the unfavorable reviews he has received, and reacts with the fury of an upstaged diva to a photograph he considers ill-chosen. In effect, what Mailer has produced is a record of an artistic crackup. By the early 1950s the spare, controlled prose of The Naked and the Dead had turned sour and turgid, and its author was drifting in a haze of liquor, seconal and marijuana. Mailer has stopped using "the minor drugs," he says (although...
Last week at Grand Ridge, Ill., Arthur Walter Seed Co. was offering farmers a pick-your-yield service. The farmer merely brings in a soil sample, writes down whatever number of bushels per acre he desires, and in half an hour gets back a seed and fertilizer prescription. Says Vice President Everett C. Walter: "It's just as easy to raise 100 bushels an acre corn as 50 bushels. The only chance is weather, and there is not too much chance in that...