Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard-eyed and tightlipped, New York City's Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy last week presided over an unusual ceremony. Kennedy, an up-from-the-beat disciplinarian who runs New York's 23,600-man force with an iron hand (TIME, July 7), promoted eight cops ranging from rookie patrolman to lieutenant. Curiously, all eight were raised for the same reason: they had put the finger on other cops during a month of sordid police scandals that rocked the world's largest city...
...aggression pact by proposing that "our disputes should be settled by negotiation and not by force." In the final communiqué his aides put in a few words, which the Russians did not bother to object to, in favor of discussing a "thinning out" of troops along the Iron Curtain. This was designed to take some of the steam out of Labor's election-year drive for "disengagement" in Central Europe. Without reading it, the two chiefs of government rushed through the signing of the final communiqué. When Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd remonstrated, Khrushchev replied...
...want palm-tree justice," says one of Ayub's ministers, and a Western diplomat calls the new regime "a relaxed dictatorship." The velvet glove has been more apparent than the iron fist, and as a result some of the old black-marketing, corrupt ways were returning. But last week the government took its first decisive action against the corrupt in high places...
Tiger coach Cappy Cappon as usual will employ his "Iron Five," although their tensile strength is dubious after the Dartmouth massacre...
...there was a calmer, less spectacular side to IGY. In fields of oceanography, meteorology and glaciology, for example, the East and the West worked together for the first time, and large amounts of data flowed into World Data Centers from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Scientists at the University and at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, who played a key role in IGY projects, agreed almost unanimously that when several nations tackled a problem, enough raw information was provided to last for years of analysis. "IGY was a sure way of demonstrating that science is international, and is strong only when...