Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treason trial of Klaus Fuchs and the sensational cases of the "Chalk Pit Murder" and the "Vampire," he soon became known as the "Tiger." Green young barristers would sit up all night polishing their briefs before daring to appear before him in the morning and risk hearing him say, "Let's skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich and famous lawyers, their names trailed by the initials of knighthood and honor, knew what it was like to be put in their place by Goddard. A quick and brilliant man, he was often impatient, earned...
...Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, that he was really just a harmless agrarian democrat, and got included in the government. Last week, seeing himself about to be shoved outside again, Prince Souphanouvong rose in the Assembly to deny that he was a Communist. Answered Phoui smoothly: "I did not definitely say the Prince was one. I simply wondered why he had sent 100 Laotian students to study in North Viet Nam and 300 to study in Red China, including his own children." Phoui was excluding Communists, he went on, because, "a horse cannot have two riders-one going right...
...nationalists howled lustily, but Jánio ignored them. The significance was that a shrewd and ambitious politician can now say out loud in Brazil that nationalism is better served by whatever means will get Brazil the petroleum the country thirsts...
...Grandma and her grandma used to say that the best way to treat a burn was to hold it under the spout (cold water, naturally), but later generations of medical scientists have pooh-poohed the idea. Now, University of Utah researchers are convinced that grandma was right: cold (not iced) water or a cold wet pack is the best first aid for burns, should be started within seconds or minutes to do the most good. Principal beneficiary of the research is the U.S. Navy, which paid for it. Navymen are exposed to many burn hazards and usually have plenty...
...person who had been hanging around the show for days, the only real surprise was the stand-by's shock at his discovery. "Every single one of us was briefed beforehand," one Dotto winner told TIME last week. "But it was all done so subtly, you could never say positively that you'd been given any specific answer. One day I finally went up to one of the producers and said: 'How on earth can you get away with it?' He looked me right in the eye and said, 'I don't know what...