Word: panics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without its drawbacks. All three of the men running for the first time after being shelved with adjusted either had recurrences of their old till or contracted new ones. Dong Panic after taking third in the 100, pulled a muscle on his first broad jump attempt. Similar fates befell Ted Washington in the quarter mile and Cliff Wharton in the low hurdles...
...Much Medicine? The basic trouble, according to Outman: "The Government has continued to handle the peace as though it were a depression. The 'emergency' planners have tried to doctor up a once healthy situation with so many panic policies that industry, the unwilling patient, is sick from too much of the wrong kinds of medicines...
Target for Tonight. In Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, there was a near panic when somebody started a rumor that the planet Saturn had jumped its orbit, was hellbent for Dinkelsbuhl...
Then, to the accompaniment of eerie music and the sound of loud explosions, a succession of breathless news announcers pleaded with Parisians not to panic. "You are helpless in any case," they added. They begged listeners to remain calm "even if you see sudden flashes in the sky, hear claps of thunder; if the earth quakes, lights fail, electric motors stop and you sense . . . loss of equilibrium...
...THAT GOT Mc CLOY - Helen AWAY-Helen William Morrow ($2). The aggressively erudite author of Panic has boned up this time on the ancient Picts, the psychology of juvenile delinquency and Poe's Purloined Letter. She turns it all into a pretty exciting chase across the Scottish moors. When it's all over, the critical reader may feel as trapped as the villain by the plot's hard-to-believe major premise. Verdict: very good...