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...with an open mind, evaluate what I have done for NBC." Actually. Weaver has every reason to sit back for a while: he got a $200,000-plus settlement, but if he goes to work for a rival network before July 1, 1957, he must forfeit about one-fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Wide, Wide Shake-Up | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...ready to send their children back to school. From Key West, Fla. to Port Angeles, Wash, a record-shattering 41,533,000 students began to enroll in the U.S.'s often overcrowded and understaffed schools and colleges-1,754,300 more than last year, and an astonishing one-fourth of the nation's population. "It gets to be more fun each year," said Mrs. Creta McVean, teacher of the first grade of Dallas' James W. Fannin Elementary School, as she looked forward to her 30th year of teaching school. "I anticipate what we'll be doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Back to School | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Daniel did not get a majority of the votes, was forced into a runoff primary with Yarborough, and that was a different story. Yarborough picked up support from the candidates who had fallen in the first primary; after a wild race to the wire, Daniel won by only one-fourth of 1% of the total vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Decision in Texas | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...rebuilding it a few miles away) to get at the oil. Since the downtown real estate is worth more than the oil potential, even Houston is not likely to go that far. But the oil is worth a lot to the city of Houston. The city holds a one-fourth interest in "City Dump No. 1," should reap $40,000 yearly from it. Trice already has begun drilling "City Dump No. 2'' on the same profits deal with Houston. Geologists figure that the 300-acre dump is good for at least 15 producing wells. Such a sea under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Gold Under the Garbage | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...matter how real the pain, the reaction to it varies vastly with the individual and the circumstances. Boston's Dr. Henry K. Beecher noted in World War II that only one-fourth of the soldiers seriously wounded in battle complained of pain (their wounds meant the end of combat and return to safety); among civilians with comparable wounds produced by surgery, three-fourths complain. When Dr. Keats slipped such patients injections of simple salt solution instead of the narcotic they expected, 43% said that the pain went away. Other patients, told that they were to get "a new drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Problem of Pain | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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