Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Preminger has done well with his actors, too. David Niven is remarkable as the sort of rake that accumulates his life in his face, like a pile of dead leaves. Deborah Kerr provides one transcendent scene in which, as she overhears her man with another woman, her prim, pretty English face breaks up like a cooky in the fingers of a child. And Jean Seberg, rebounding from her disastrous debut as Joan of Arc (TIME, July 1), blooms with just the right suggestion of unhealthy freshness, a cemetery flower...
Some of the reasons, writes Dutch-born Psychiatrist Joost A. M. Meerloo in Postgraduate Medicine, are physical and general. In a crowded, unventilated room there is less oxygen to burn the alcohol in the blood, so the effects of two or three drinks pile up and may make even a seasoned drinker drunk. There is also lower oxygen tension at high altitudes, so drinking is risky in the mountains or in unpressurized airplanes (Dr. Meerloo is not sure about pressurized cabins). In the humid tropics the easy burning of alcohol may cause "an uneasy feeling of congestion" and give...
...chill-eyed chairman of the Senate Labor Rackets Investigating Committee:* "I do not think even the committee was prepared for the shocking pattern of viciousness, lawlessness and disregard for the laws of the land to which many witnesses have testified here." Sample testimony: Nashville Teamsters negotiated contracts with pile-driving fists; Knoxville Teamsters dynamited truckers who refused to bargain without NLRB elections; Chattanooga Teamsters bombed, burned and escaped the consequences by passing $20.000 in bribes that, by strong inference, influenced the decision of the county judge trying the case...
...Visitors' Gallery. Snapped Aneurin Bevan, Labor's left-leaning spokesman on foreign affairs: "We are profoundly depressed when representative after representative of the British government . . . has no advice to give to the nation except to build up one more tier of ridiculous armaments on the useless pile we have created." The government won the vote, 289 to 251. But its majority was smaller than usual, and five right-wing Tories abstained...
...industry's headlong expansion will taper off in 1958; industry will invest only $34.5 billion in new plants and machines, down 7% from 1957. Autos, aluminum, machinery and many others are planning fewer additions. But utilities, which never caught up in 1957, will have to pile on another $200 million increase to $6.5 billion next year. Many steelmen are also pushing ahead despite lower operating levels. Says Inland Steel Co.'s President Joseph L. Block, who earmarked $280 million for a three-year expansion program: "We plan for continued growth because we believe we are a growth company...