Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advertising to imply that his mixture of B vitamins, minerals and honey, all bathed in alcohol, would cure almost everything. He also has a corps of gagsters turning out jingles and jokes insinuating that Hadacol is an aphrodisiac. In dry southern states, Hadacol has another virtue; its 24-proof alcoholic content makes it just the thing for binges. Medicine Man LeBlanc, who prefers straight bourbon himself, can hardly understand this last fact because, he says, Hadacol "tastes so bad I don't see how anybody could drink enough to get high...
...sentenced to five years in prison. Last week, however, the three-man U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously reversed the conviction. In their opinion, New York Federal Judge Gregory F. Noonan had been "vague and indefinite" in charging the jury as to that wildly baffling point: what constitutes proof of membership in the Communist Party. The court ruled that he had also erred in denying Remington minutes of his own grand jury testimony and that U.S. Attorney Irving H. Saypol had harped unfairly on the fact that a defense witness had changed his name from Rothenberg to Redmont...
...acoustics of the Supreme Court Chamber are "wretched." But don't overdo it: "No judge likes to be shouted at as if he were an ox." He warned his audience that the justices constantly ask questions. He also added a note of comfort: "It is clear proof that the inquiring justice is not asleep...
...aircraft carriers. The aircraft industry knows that one company already has a contract for a plane to be powered by an atomic reactor. General Electric has the contract to build the reactor and is now at work on it. And an atomic power plant in a submarine was further proof that atomic energy for industrial use was no pipe dream...
Virginia Mayo, 28, in the classic tradition of Hollywood cheesecake, whose body has been referred to by the Sultan of Morocco as "the most striking proof of God's existence." From bathing beauty parts she has recently been switched to juicier-and more heavily clothed-adventure roles. Her current: virtuous Lady Barbara in Captain Horatio Hornblower...