Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MERRIMAN SMITH GARNETT D. HORNER Press Room The White House Washington, D.C. ¶ TIME'S own White House reporters do not need a poll to know when their colleagues are acting baffled...
...nuclear bomb that fell in Florence, S.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had produced only a low-order explosion in the U.S., but it brought megaton repercussions in Britain. The Labor press broke into "we-told-you-so" editorials. Even the Conservative Daily Sketch had a suggestion about the H-bomb: "Keep it. But keep it on the ground...
Since the recession, many dailies have been playing up Sylvia Porter's sharpwitted, clearly written daily column on economics. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has added two topical syndicated columns: "You and Your Job" and "Family Finance." A five-part recession roundup filed by the Associated Press last week was used by most papers-including many that maintain there is no recession. Though it had yet to focus on human angles of the slump in its own backyard, the encyclopedic New York Times reached across the world to report repercussions of U.S. economic pangs...
Powerful Sanctions. What causes the difference? One theory, notes Yale Sociology Professor Charles R. Snyder in Alcohol and the Jews (Free Press, Yale Center of Alcohol Studies; $5), was advanced by Philosopher Immanuel Kant: he thought that Jews clung to moderation for fear of incurring censure from the society surrounding them. A more convincing theory, Snyder believes, is the Jewish emphasis on food, "so that 'compulsive' eating is more likely to be selected as a means of alleviating psychic tensions [than] addictive drinking." He cites one psychological study showing that Jewish mothers' anxiety about their children...
...fires. He burns it up according to the dictates of his own four-footed psyche; his jockey is only along for the ride. He breaks from the gate like a common sprinter, races 70 yds., then lags as if his safety valve had popped. Wags in the press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins to run again only when he rounds the stretch turn and heads for the crowd again. Says Co-Owner Tom Ross: "I swear, he counts the house...