Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Norman Bel Geddes, 65, stage and industrial designer, father of Actress Barbara Bel Geddes; of a heart attack, while lunching at Manhattan's University Club. Irrepressibly creative Norman Bel Geddes designed everything from ashtrays to sets for the Metropolitan Opera, refrigerators, radios, root-beer bottles, magazine layouts, furniture...
The massive extirpation force netted and scatter-gunned the exhausted birds or snared them with long, gum-tipped bamboo poles. At last report 310,000 sparrows had fallen in Peking alone, and an estimated 4,000,000 throughout the rest of Red China. The national hero was Yang Seh-mun...
Recently, the President's new science adviser, James Rhyne Killian Jr. of M.I.T., appointed Hans Bethe, Cornell physicist, to head up a new presidential study on disarmament. Bethe and Teller had clashed in 1949 and early 1950 on the feasibility of making a hydrogen bomb-Teller for, Bethe against...
Then, out of the pocket of Rhode Island Democrat Aime Forand came another proposal hastily whipped up by his fellow Democrats on the committee. The new draft served as a practical demonstration of the poles-apart recession philosophies of the Eisenhower Administration and many congressional Democrats. The Democratic proposal extended...
Almost in tears, Georghios Papageorghiou, plump owner of the theater he had spent $123,000 on, begged the British: "Let me carry the bombs out. Someone carried them in. They can't be all that dangerous." But as dusk neared, houses and shops adjoining the theater were cleared, police...