Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contrary to common belief, Julius Caesar was born the normal way. The operation got its name because Roman law, which became Lex Caesare, required it to be performed as a last resort. Most noted Caesarean offspring in fact: Scipio Africanus. In fiction: Macduff...
After Shock Fails. Psychiatrists and surgeons are also agreed, says Dr. Kalinowsky, that surgery is a last resort in mental cases, a measure not to be taken until all other treatments, including shock, have failed. Reason: psychosurgery in some cases has "undeniable side effects" (chiefly damage to the personality such as apathy and irresponsibility). Schizophrenics are the usual subjects, largely because nothing else seems to help them much...
...Pandora, Actress Gardner is a cruelly flighty American girl who drives men to distraction at a Spanish Mediterranean resort. She is also the very image of the Dutch wife for whose murder, four centuries earlier, Mason is doomed to sail the seas until he can find a woman willing to die for him. Omar Khayyam's moving finger, worked to the bone by Scripter Lewin, brings the two together during the brief interval (once every seven years) in which Mason's curse permits him to make port...
...materials will be only partly effective; Britain, the Commonwealth nations and many other nations except the U.S. will continue to sell China "non-strategic" goods which will help China's economy and therefore its war machine. The only possible remedy, which the U.S. is not yet willing to resort to: a U.S. naval blockade of the Chinese coast...
...winter resort town of Torquay, on the south coast of England, the U.S. and 33 other nations wound up seven months of give & take discussion on cutting tariffs. When the U.S. totted up the results of the conference last week, it found that it had given more than it had taken. The U.S. granted tariff cuts up to 50% on $419 million of imports (as of 1949). The cuts apply to such strategic metals as lead, chrome and vanadium, and such luxuries as orchids and champagne. In return, the U.S. got tariff reductions from other nations...