Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important implication." says Dr. Hardy, "is that high-intensity, intractable pain is a physiologic impossibility, and no pain, even at threshold level, can be sustained without remission for long periods of time. So-called intractable pain must therefore be of low intensity, periodic, or must not be truly pain at all, but rather a combination of nonpainful sensations which are interpreted by the individual as unpleasant and unacceptable...
...33rd week of the Cyprus emergency, Prime Minister Eden got up in the House of Commons and announced the failure of "another approach to this most intractable question on the international level." The British government had finally agreed to the principle of self-determination for the Cypriots, Eden explained, but its valued ally Turkey would not stand for it. Therefore "Her Majesty's Government have to accept that for the moment progress by this means cannot be realized...
...want the boy to have the education I missed." says Rex. "Fortunately I didn't need one in the theater." Noel, his son by his first wife, was an Olympic skier, now plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera...
...Christian missions, and some 35,000 of their students are Moslems, this poses something of a pedagogical as well as a spiritual problem to the Christian schools. About two-thirds of them have reluctantly agreed to comply, though the Roman Catholics have not yet committed themselves, pending high-level discussions of the "conscientious" issue raised for Catholics by this apparent placing of their religion on the same level as others...
Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia. (TIME, April...