Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The picture of confidence, a Manhattan lawyer named Bill Shea announced formation of a third major league: the Continental, which plans to start play in 1961, has already signed up New York, Houston, Denver, Toronto, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Shea's biggest-problem: getting big-league players. But...
Fifteen years ago last week. Soviet armies were pressing into Poland, the Western Allies were about to break through at St.-Lô, and no one around the heavy oak table at the Fuhrer's headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia, was able to offer much encouragement. "Do you know...
Hard-pressed U.S. railroads figure their featherbedding bill at $500 million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though...
The theological split has long kept Shiite Iraq, Iran and Yemen apart from the rest of the Moslem world, which generally adheres to Sunnite doctrine. Last week Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 66, Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's revered al-Azhar University (TIME, May 11), was dramatically pressing a drive...
Obviously, the ultimate goal is prevention. Here cancer offers its usual paradoxes. There is no faintest clue as to how most of the commonest forms can be prevented; yet in those cases where trigger mechanisms have been spotted, preventive measures have been more effective than against any other disease. Scrotum...