Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the glass doors of Paris' Elysée Palace one day last week, France's Cabinet wrangled for a record eleven hours. Twice during the discussion angry right-wing ministers stalked out to unburden their grievances in private audiences with France's genial President René Coty, who well knew that if they quit, it would be his job to find another Premier. While Coty did his best to smooth their feathers, harried Félix Gaillard, France's youngest (38) ruler since Napoleon Bonaparte, stalked the corridors of the Elysée palace, nervously...
...last chance at his lifelong ambition: to sit in Catete Palace, Brazil's White House. If he does not make it in the October 1960 presidential election he will be too old afterward. Last week, in his frantic bid, Aranha seemed ready to toss away a lifetime record of liberalism, internationalism, Western Hemisphere solidarity...
...uninterested in CBS's offer of a $185.50 weekly minimum wage unless it was accompanied by a tighter job-security clause in their new contract. But behind the talk of security was a looming new threat to their jobs: video tape, the electronic wonder that can record both TV's sounds and images on a magnetized plastic strip. Unlike film, such tape needs no processing, can reproduce what it has heard and seen-a second or a century later (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). The reproduced image on the TV screen is far superior to film, and distinguishable from...
...spread, the officials were more jubilant than embarrassed. Their hit record is drawing 5,000 callers a day-so heavy a load that two of their five answering machines burned out and had to be repaired. The payoff: prompted by the message, 70 VD victims daily are telephoning for help. Says one official: "Every case cured helps us to break the chain of infection. We could have spent thousands on propaganda and never begun to get such results...
...against the piddling 5% average recovery rate among lay addicts, California's fallen healers have also scored a phenomenal comeback record of 92%. Main reason, writes Dr. Louis E. Jones, the state medical board's secretary-treasurer, is the humane technique of coping with them. The board immediately revokes an offending physician's license-but usually lets him go on practicing on probation for three to five years. For this privilege, he must give up all use of narcotics unless prescribed for him (or his patients) by a licensed physician. The hope of reinstatement proves a tremendous...