Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stirred the network executives to sanitize their programs as never before. CBS has refused to ease restrictions on what can and cannot be said on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Two of last month's Tonight Show guest hosts, Bill Cosby and Jerry Lewis, made public apologies for ill-received wisecracks, which had nothing to do with sex or violence. At the N.A.B. convention, the industry's nervous mood was apotheosized by one Catholic priest who, in a luncheon invocation, prayed that God sympathize with "oppressed broadcasters-accused of aiding and abetting materialism, perversion, violence and crime...
...stories are adapted from a novel by Ray Bradbury, a sci-fi writer whose eerie fantasies are sometimes ill served by his earthbound prose. In them he predicts a time when children can conjure up a nightmare from their subconscious to kill their parents and anticipates the eventual psychological deterioration of space explorers and the sunset of the world. Screenwriter Howard B. Kreitsek substitutes a few ringers of his own ("There is a point at which fantasy becomes dangerously close to reality," Robert Drivas intones portentously). But responsibility for the failure of The Illustrated Man must rest with Director Jack...
Until Pope Pius XII fell ill in 1954, few people had ever heard of hiatal hernia and fewer knew what it was, although surprisingly many must have suffered from it. Nowadays the diagnosis is being made with startling frequency-in 10% to 12% of all patients who have X rays of the upper digestive tract. But is the condition more common than formerly? Probably not, said Harvard's Dr. Herbert D. Adams at a regional meeting of the American College of Surgeons in Boston. The explanation, he suggested, is that the X rays are now being read with greater...
...built, and have earned billions of dollars in foreign exchange. But such dominance will continue only so long as U.S.-built ships are faster and more efficient than anyone else's. U.S. aviation was in this critical condition once before, when Britain's ill-fated Comet series beat U.S. jets to the skies by nine years. After the Comet tragically failed, the U.S. easily caught up with the British planemakers...
...Volpe seems to ignore even that economic reality. He appears to think that the jingoist argument of "keeping up with the Russians" is reason enough to sink more money into an ill-planned project. It isn't. Instead of artificially prolonging the SSTs' life, Volpe should mercifully kill...