Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHAT is news? Webster says simply that it is "matter of interest," a definition at once prosaic yet broad. Much interests TIME'S readers, their normal curiosity whetted by headlines, radio bulletins, TV shows. Sometimes some of the most important news of the week is made by these headlines. Newsmen rarely, if ever, report the news about themselves. Last week one story that shouted out of the front pages and caused repercussions both in the U.S. and in Europe-the story of John Foster Dulles' press conference-was created by the press, and thus what reporters, pundits...
...growing chaos. But Premier Phoui (pronounced Pwee) Sananikone, 55 (TIME, Sept. 1), a muscular and quick-witted six-footer, was ready for them. Last August he had formed a government shorn of the two Communist ministers. He instituted a currency reform that allowed the Laotian kip to find its normal level of 80 to the dollar, and he brought a halt to the scandalous abuse...
Sickle-cell anemia is so-called because, in its victims, many red blood cells change from their normal roughly spherical shape to that of a thin sickle. It is virtually confined to Negroes. The sickling trait is transmitted by a gene-just how is not certain. Best estimates are that 9% of U.S. Negroes (or 1,500,000) carry the gene but rarely need treatment, while perhaps 30,000, who have inherited the gene from both parents, have the full-blown disease...
...always doing her homework in bed, Marclan saves enough energy to play the piano, teach in her father's Baptist Sunday school, and carry on light campus activities. It has already taken more than 250 pints of blood to keep Marclan Walker up to this pitch of near-normal activity...
...camera that it blotted out the scenery. Still, he was the marshal, and when he whipped his Colt from its holster and fired at the varmint standing at the other end of the dusty, deserted street, western fans could only suppose that things were back to normal. But on ABC's Maverick this week, nothing returned to normal. The marshal's first shot missed his man, and so did five more. Cried the varmint: "Shall I stand a little closer, Marshal...