Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about walking four or five blocks for meals?" Some sort of breakfast adjustment plan, however, now seems likely, and as far as lunch is concerned, Vanger points out that all House members have to walk back from class anyway. This leaves dinner, and few of this year's residents object to evening hikes...
Some critics object to Salk's use of the Mahoney-(Type I) strain of virus because if any live particles slipped through they could cause severe paralysis after injection into muscle. Dr. Salk answers that if no live particles can get through, it cannot matter what they might do. And he makes sure, by the most rigorous testing that he has been able to devise, that every virus particle is killed. ^ Dr. Salk has had no unfavorable reactions with his vaccine. On the evidence to date, there is no reason for parents to withhold permission for their children...
...Anderson and partly because Harvester has found that Negro workers in general are just as good as white, it declined to conform to the local policy of discrimination when it opened plants after World War II in Memphis and Louisville, and the results, said the Urban League, are an object lesson for U.S. industry...
...such imaginative pioneers Mars is not very interesting, but astronomers feel differently. Except for the unrewarding Moon, Mars is the only object in the sky whose surface can be studied. Mercury is too close to the sun, Pluto is too far from the' earth, and the other planets are hidden in clouds. Fascinating things may exist, for instance, beneath the white cloud deck of Venus, but no astronomer hopes to catch a glimpse of them...
Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who spotted the planet Pluto (1930), is looking for a nearer and even more elusive object: a second satellite of the earth. Since he refuses to give details and refers questioners to Army Ordnance-in Washington, it is fair to assume that the famous rocket-men who work for Army Ordnance are interested in the project. They may want merely to know what opposition from nature their rockets are apt to encounter when they climb deep into space. Or they may have a more ambitious interest: a nearby, natural satellite might be a more convenient base...