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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, and I don't want to waste it," he said once. But on Nov. 2, 1956-the night after his masterful Suez speech at the U.N.-he suffered the first abdominal pains of his fateful illness. Next day Walter Reed surgeons removed a malignant lesion from the lower intestine. Last February, after a sharp attack of diverticulitis, he flew to London, Paris, Bonn to consult with the West's leaders and to inspire new unity and new firmness on Berlin; he could scarcely walk, scarcely eat. "If it isn't cancer," he told a friend before...
Soon after Galveston was commissioned last year, it became clear that her electronic batteries confronted crewmen with new hazards that had not shown up in earlier missile cruisers (Boston and Canberra) with lower-powered transmitters. Also, the danger of intense microwaves (TIME, April 6) had not been plotted in detail. From animal experiments and sketchy data on humans, the Navy medics set a level of 10 milliwatts per square centimeter of body surface as conservatively safe for personnel aboard missile ships. Dr. Johnson's findings on Galveston proved that this level was sometimes exceeded...
...place in overall U.S. car sales. Last week "Bunky" Knudsen's hot-rodding Pontiac was at the top of the medium-price field, with 30% of that market; sales were up (117% in April, 60% for the year), and Pontiac was in a nip-and- tuck race with lower-priced Plymouth for third place in overall standings. On G.M.'s corporate-profit sheets, Pontiac stood second only to Chevrolet; around the G.M. building in Detroit there was quiet talk that Bunky Knudsen might well become G.M. president some day. From the start, Bill Knudsen insisted that...
...people something to talk about. They can see it and they can understand it." Where the average age of previous Pontiac buyers was around 45, today's buyer is between 30 and 35. Another sales lure: Knudsen cut the price of expensive models, held the line on the lower-priced models, so that Pontiac's top-selling Catalina costs less than a Chevrolet Impala...
...felt that sweetening the issue with a higher interest rate would not have done much good. With the pickup in business, corporations can see other uses for the money, are reluctant to hold an issue for a year. They prefer shorter-term bills, even though the rates are lower (2½-2⅝%) until they can see where money rates are going...