Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak of the U.S.'s strong support for NATO, to reassure the Soviet Union's Atomic Energy Boss Vasily Emelyanov (see SCIENCE) of his hopes for a peaceful atomic future. He got a personal report from the State Department's Livingston Merchant, just back from Panama, on the troubles for the U.S. still simmering on the isthmus (see HEMISPHERE...
...threats finally brought Livingston Merchant, top U.S. State Department troubleshooter, from Washington. Merchant's answer rocked them back on their heels. He merely reaffirmed Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...
...spacemen, an equally eminent group of nine Russian atomic scientists was also touring the U.S. Led by Professor Vasily S. Emelyanov, chief of the Soviet Administration for Peaceful Utilization of Atomic Energy, they visited laboratories from California to Long Island, uranium mines, nuclear-power reactors and the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, now under construction at Camden, N.J. The prime matter on Emelyanov's mind seemed to be peaceful atomic cooperation between Russia and the U.S. The two nations are now engaged, he said, in a "football game" of senseless competition, but they would get ahead faster if they built...
...Egypt was wrecked on the west coast of India, south of Bombay. Seven men and seven women survived, and an ancient cemetery at the village of Nowgow is traditionally the place where they buried the bodies of the drowned. The 14 survivors were given jobs by a Hindu oil merchant, who put them to work pressing seeds for oil (still a traditional occupation of some Bene Israel villagers). Because they refused to work on the Sabbath, the Hindus called them Shanwar Telis-Saturday's Oilmen...
BUREAUCRACY The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.) " 'What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done?' " intoned a worried cranberry merchant in Washington last week, taking Isaiah (5:4) for his text. Bible-quoting George C. P. Olson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., the big growers' cooperative, thus put it straight to Arthur Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, who threw growers and housewives into a panic the week before with his declaration-based upon mouse tests-that cranberries tainted with the weed killer aminotriazole might cause cancer (TIME, Nov. 23). Said Olson...