Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pharmaceutical industry in a straitjacket, he was indisputably right when he said: "Few bills have had so varied a legislative history." In the end. it was not Kefauver's three-year investigation of the drug industry that put the reform legislation over, but the national shock over the thalidomide disaster (TIME. Aug. 10) and panic over the possibility that "it might happen here...
...tell you," said New York City Ballet's George Balanchine, "it's fantastic. Between us-our company and Stravinsky-we may bring about a change here that will influence the entire future of ballet and music.'' Few who sensed the shock waves of excitement in Russian intellectual circles last week doubted that Balanchine knew what he was talking about. The visits of U.S. instrumentalists such as Van Cliburn and Isaac Stern may have been more loudly acclaimed by the Russian man in the street. But it remained for Russia's two great expatriates...
...Britain was braced for the expected shock. At Scotland Yard a special control center was set up to coordinate minute-by-minute reports from an armada of police cars. Squadrons of spotter planes stood fueled and ready for takeoff. Said Transport Minister Ernest Marples: "We kept going during the blitz, and we shall keep going...
Moved to action by the severest shock a writer can sustain-a friend two years younger announces that his own novel is to be published-Brendan finds a solution. He imports his dear old mother from Belfast to look after the two children, puts his wife to work, quits the magazine, and dusts off his old manuscript. The novel goes well (the reader is never told what it is about, and it may, indeed, be about a writer), but nothing else does. Mother Tierney cannot understand Brendan's wife, and is shocked by the paganism of his household...
...Governor would be Henry Bellmon, 41, a big (230 HDS., 6 ft. 2 in.) ex-marine lieutenant who neither smokes nor drinks, but just raises cattle, wheat and Republican hopes. He was elected to the legislature in 1946, and in 1960 became state party chairman. The choice was a shock to old-line Republicans who had got comfy sitting on their hands. "Of the 300 state committee people," says Bellmon, "I replaced 208 with new, younger people. Overnight, the average age of the party's top workers dropped by about 30 years, from...