Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newly slenderized (from 215 to 191 Ibs.) for the fray, Michael Vincent Di Salle, 50, former mayor of Toledo and onetime price stabilization chief, is raring to do what he just missed doing in 1956: beat the Republicans' low-gear, low-key C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 42. During an undistinguished first term, Billy O'Neill demonstrated nothing so much as a knack for ruffling the feathers of party roosters, e.g., by trying-vainly-to kick out influential Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Chairman A. L. De Maioribus, and by failing to mention anyone else on the state...
...Tend to freeze nuclear-weapons technology at the big-warhead stage, keep the U.S. from developing compact, versatile, low-fallout nuclear weapons. To provide a range of choices in between "suicide or surrender," argues Kissinger, the free world urgently needs, along with more conventional forces, a wide spectrum of low-fallout, tactical nuclear weapons...
...worst polio spot in the U.S. Statistics: 464 current cases (230 paralytic) and 14 deaths, against a total of 163 cases and two deaths by the same week last year. Well over half (279) of the victims were Negroes, mainly children under 15, centered in the city's low-income Negro sections. This week they could plead neither ignorance nor poverty. Polio was suddenly Detroit's best-publicized word, and alarmed officials began a four-week program of mass inoculations at $1 per shot, or no cost at all if a patient cannot afford...
...started reading about the expose of quiz shows," said former Twenty One Contestant James Snodgrass. "I was hoping I'd be the forgotten man." But the New York County District Attorney's office remembered Artist Snodgrass for his moment of fame in Twenty One's low-income brackets (he won $4,000). His testimony, as reported by the New York Post, added up to one word: fraud. Like Contestant Herb Stempel before him (TIME, Sept. 8), said Snodgrass, he was given answers in advance, was eventually told when to lose gracefully to Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden...
...balloon hung steadily in the eye of the storm. Whenever it rose above a predetermined level, an automatic mechanism released a little of its buoyant gas. Whenever it sank too low, another gadget dropped a bit of ballast. Gentle breezes spiraling inward kept it always close to the storm's calm center...