Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME deplores atomic "spine-chilling" but manages to give it a fling . . . Despite your statement that "it may be years before the food products of Bikini are safe" [TIME, Oct. 3], dozens of us have partaken daily of Bikini's coconuts and papaya, with full clearance from both radiochemist and radio-medical officer. For six weeks we swam daily in the "poisoned lagoon" and walked hip-deep by the hour in the "radioactive water." Poppycock ! Over two years ago the scientists reported that a man living for months on twice-A-bombed Bikini would be exposed to radioactivity roughly...
There were 372 of them in all, on a vessel built to carry 50. They were children and grownups, Poles, Estonians, White Russians and Latvians. Fleeing the terrors of totalitarianism in their homelands, they had found temporary asylum in Sweden but they had never felt safe. "There is many a Russian spy there in Sweden," explained 28-year-old Grace Kupper. who had escaped her native Estonia in a fishing boat five years ago. Soon afterward her parents were taken to Siberia. Now Grace...
...example of poor planning the FORUM picked New York City. The big town has 900 school buildings and a third of them are more than 50 years old. In this antiquated group 280 buildings are not fire-safe, and 250 have inadequate plumbing. In many neighborhoods now heavily populated by new housing projects there are no schools at all. But some schools are now much too big; their neighborhoods have shrunk as population shifted...
Deficit Financing. In Dallas, caught redhanded trying to crack a safe, Delbert A. Bowers told the cops: "I'm going on trial tomorrow [for armed robbery] and I needed some money...
...fashions and "date data" is a thick slice of advice. Samples: "How are you going to avoid necking? . . . Simply keep away from the situations that . . . send you into a romantic mood [such as parking] on the shoreline . . . Unless you're absolutely sure how much you can drink safely . . . don't drink on a date." Most of the advice is safe & sound, and many teen-agers who wouldn't take it from their parents seem to accept it from Chi-Chi. (But one irked teen-age boy wrote: "There's nothing wrong with you that a good...