Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society is a man-eat-man thing on every possible level," says Writer Rod Serling, 33, and his tough, uncompromising television plays (Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Comedian) reflect this belief. So does his professional life. He has contended with networks, ad agencies and sponsors over what he could say, scrapped with directors over how to say it, become TV's most outspoken authority on the devious ways of television censorship. But short (5 ft. 5 in.) Author Serling is more in demand than any other playwright in the TV business, was recently corralled...
...lightning rod for a sudden series of bolts of discontent, Nixon's tour served a useful purpose, although the purpose was ironically different from the "good will" that was its original goal. His ordeal showed that international Communists had invaded the hemisphere with a vengeance and were capable of precise, cold-war operations in South America. It also showed that they were capable of spitting on a woman, an act that would cost them heavily in a continent that prizes manners. Latin Americans got a lesson in the excesses of nationalism. And for the U.S., there could no longer...
Early nuclear reactors were easy to slap down. If one of them made what physicists euphemistically call an "excursion" -i.e., started to react too fast -it could be slowed down by pushing into it a simple rod of neutron-absorbing material. Control rods are still used, but the operators of big modern reactors dare not depend on them alone. Under some conditions, the fierce nuclear fire in the reactor's core can make a disastrous excursion in a fraction of a second...
Sculpture can be-and lately has been -made from wire, welding rod, boiler plate, concrete, and wormy wood. Last week a pair of shows in Rome and Manhattan served to prove that bronze and marble also have possibilities...
Reider will have little competition in the distances now that Princeton's Rod Zwirner is no longer in school. Although Dyke Benjamin and Eddie Martin are still out, the Crimson's Bill Thompson and Jim Schlaeppi will pick up place points in these events...