Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful launching of the first American satellite is a memorable day not only for the U.S. but also for the lovers of peace and freedom the world over. At last, half of the world sleeps safer...
Palm Springs' Dr. Herman M. Salk (brother of Vaccinventor Jonas Salk) has pioneered with tranquilizers for dogs; they not only calm the patient, making him easier and safer to handle, but in many cases they are better than standard anesthetics. (Cows get tranquilizers to calm their jitters when coming into milk.) Dr. Salk borrows another technique from psychiatry: empathy. "A vet has to feel what the dog feels," says Salk. "When I get a patient with a tense belly, I find my belly getting tense...
...Editor Erwin Dain Canham, 53, veteran newspaperman who has little but scorn for the artificial "objectivity" that cloaks the superficiality of much news writing. Says "Spike" Canham: "We believe that the balancing fact should be attached directly to the misleading assertion. News interpretation, with all its hazards, is often safer and wiser than printing the bare news alone. Nothing can be more misleading than the unrelated fact, just because it is a fact and hence impressive." Example: during the rise of the late Joe McCarthy, the Monitor was one of the few U.S. dailies that consistently and searchingly matched...
...years) or install a reactor to power an existing-type plane (time estimate: three years). The Navy said that it could adapt several of its seaplanes, including the experimental Martin P-6M multijet Sea-master or the old Mars, now up for sale, added that it would be safer to test a nuclear plane over sea than over land areas, where a crash might expose civilians to explosion and radiation. The Air Force said it could adapt its operational B-52 intercontinental jet bomber or its KC-135 jet tanker, but added that it was much more interested in getting...
...SALES SLUMP, because of price war among the ballpoints, is causing Eversharp Inc. to sell its pen and pencil divisions, concentrate on safer safety razors and blades. Ever-sharp board has approved sale to Parker Pen Co., and Parker will probably agree, as it is eager to add Eversharp's foreign business to its own burgeoning overseas operation...