Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ATOM ENERGY INVESTMENT by private U.S. industry will top $500 million this year, says AEChairman Lewis L. Strauss. Companies are spending $270 million to build power reactors and $33 million for parts, $200 million for uranium mining, $25 million for research.
Geneticist E. B. Lewis, also of Caltech, proves in Science that leukemia (a cancer-like blood disease) is indeed caused by radiation. He uses statistics covering Japanese atom-bomb victims and three types of Americans exposed to large amounts of X rays. Strontium 90, he believes, will have the same...
¶ Robert S. McNamara, 40, one of the youthful "whiz kids" brought in from the Air Forces after World War II to streamline Ford Motor Co. financial management, became the No. 4 man in the huge Ford empire. McNamara was named group vice president in charge of all car and...
LITTERARY symbols are made not only by authors. but by readers-whenever they feel the need to sum up a phase of their own lives and times. Readers seized on Goethe's Werther and Byron's Childe Harold as handy symbols of romanticism, on Flaubert's Madame...
The Crowded Road. In Manhattan, elegantly tailored Jewel Thief Sidney Lewis, after confessing to police that he had pinched about $25,000 worth of jewelry, added mildly: "A man has to live, you know. He might as well live well."