Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath the Arctic ice last week for a several-weeks stay was the second U.S. submarine in eight days to take the short route to the North Pole: the nuclear-powered Skate. The first, Nautilus, ducked under the Pacific and emerged six days later in the Atlantic, mostly to prove it could be done. The Skate, skippered by young (37) Commander James Calvert, has popped up several times in ice gaps -within missile range of Russia. Traveling since then in expanding circles around the top of the world, Skate returns next month to New London, Conn. By then, Skate will...
Soon to become an honored statesman at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London, Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was making top-of-his-head problems. Museum Hair Specialist Vera Bland not only had trouble getting Nkrumah-like hair ("It is in very short commercial supply"), but paled at the prospect of putting it on the wax head at 1,000 hairs per sq. in. But at least, said Bernard Tussaud, boss of the firm, "he hasn't any bumps on his head at all. He seems a good-tempered, benevolent kind...
Body Damage. The U.N. scientists pinpointed the added significance of nuclear fallout. They found least long-range danger from that which swirls through the troposphere (the part of the atmosphere that goes seven to eleven miles up) for several months before falling. At most, its short-lived isotopes raise annual external marrow and gonad dosage by .0005 rem. But the higher stratosphere (beyond eleven miles) is a reservoir of long-lived isotopes that fall for many years. Chief dangers...
...week educational curtain raiser is a bilingual newscast by Puerto Rican Newsman Jose Roman. Then Cuban-born, 31-year-old Teacher Clara Barbeito uses household objects and pictures to put across the day's vocabulary list. Listeners hear the words again when Roman closes class with a short, slowly spoken talk in English on how to get jobs in New York, or how to take advantage of the city's rent-control laws, or where to go for an inexpensive outing. Other Ingles encouragers: clips from English training films, a daily identification-translation contest...
...Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach ulcer from each of three studios...