Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every House has a tower, of which Lowell's is the most conspicuous. Now Dudley Hall is similar to the Houses, because yesterday morning it, too, received a spire, which rises 137 feet above sea level. (Actually, it's only 45 feet high...
...Eisenhower's patience, a journalist dared ask him a provocative question re helicopters and golf. The inquisitor got a cold but polite answer. It would be good to prevent that fellow from participating in these press conferences-at least to persuade him to stop asking questions below the level of dignified journalism...
...returns on long-range effects of radioactive fallout are by no means in (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). and a report published by two Navy civilian scientists suggests the worrisome possibility that the level at which accumulated fallout becomes dangerous may be much lower than has been theorized...
Weiss and Shipman did not intend to scare anyone with the investigation, but their work has revealed an unsuspected "biological mechanism" that acts selectively on a single radioactive isotope, raising its concentration from an undetectable amount to the vicinity, at least, of the danger level. Biologists cannot be sure that other living organisms, both animals and plants, do not concentrate other radioactive isotopes in places where they may damage...
...Photographer George Tames noticed that Ike had taken off his glasses and, with head tilted slightly to the left, was staring thoughtfully into space. Edging past the long-lens cameras used by most other photographers in the White House TV-radio room, Timesman Tames held his Rolleiflex at waist level, aimed his flash high to the left and caught Ike's expression with one exposure null of a second at f.16). When Tames sent a print to be autographed, he learned that the brow-furrowed shot had been chosen by Eisenhower for his first "official" portrait (TIME...