Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Folsom sought last session's ill-fated school-construction program, this time asked to have the $2 billion job done in four years instead of five. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. asked for the same civil-rights program that was pigeonholed in the Senate Judiciary Committee last summer. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton forecast no change in the Administration's plan for developing natural resources through public-private "partnership" cooperation. One surprise: Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield laid out a request for all-inclusive 5? first-class mail to be carried by air on long hauls, by train for short...
...solemn, sullen associate professor in engineering that St. Louis University hired in the summer of '54. Born in the Ukraine, Orest Stephen Makar, 47, had taught in Warsaw and Munich before coming to the U.S. in 1949. He was a specialist in photogrammetry,* worked for the U.S. Interior Department's Geodetic Survey, later got limited security clearance for a job at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. By the time he arrived in St. Louis, he and his wife were well on their way to becoming U.S. citizens...
...Pope Pius XII pleased his listeners by roundly condemning needless decibels. Said His Holiness: "Silence is beneficial not only to sanity, nervous equilibrium and intellectual labor but also helps man to live a life that reaches to the depths and the heights ... It definitely helps an effort toward an interior life, and it is in silence that God's mysterious voice is best heard...
...Psycho-Acoustic section of the Psychological Laboratories, Georg von Bekesy, research fellow in Psycho-physics, is carrying on a unique investigation of the mechanical physiology of the inner ear. His extremely delicate experiments include the measurement of the pressure changes and electrical effects within the interior structure...
Suslov was already en route from Moscow to Rome when Italian Interior Minister Fernando Tambroni announced that Suslov would not be admitted to Italy. "The ministry." explained the official Demo-Christian newspaper Il Popolo, "wishes to avoid demonstrations of dislike or perhaps of open hostility to Suslov's person...