Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time nor stamina for heavy campaigning this year. Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Richard M. Simpson complains that he has not seen the President to discuss campaign plans since Ike's stroke. In Chicago last week, the President closeted himself in a stockyards suite before his speech, accepted a short courtesy call from Governor William Stratton, but was unavailable to 50 Illinois candidates who hoped to gain an endorsement or at least a handshake...
...Name. Few countries have ever gone through so much ferment in so short a time as Turkey did in the years following the ouster of the Greeks and the end of the 600-year-old Turkish sultanate. Blindly bent on lifting his countrymen from Ottoman medievalism to Western modernity in one short haul, Ataturk converted Turkey into a facsimile of a parliamentary republic, fought an unending battle to break the influence of the Moslem clergy. Under his tireless prodding, Turks found themselves obeying not Islamic law but the Swiss Civil Code, writing not in Arabic script but a new Romanized...
GIORGIO Tozzi, 35, a tall (6 ft. 1 in.), big-shouldered Chicago-born bass, made his New York debut as Tarquinius in the 1949 Broadway production of Benjamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia, but after the short-lived Rape closed, Tozzi wound up a penniless student in Italy (he recalls being so weak from hunger that he could climb to his third-floor room only once a day). Since then, he has sung widely in Europe, last summer toured as Emile de Becque with Mary Martin in South Pacific. A onetime baritone, Tozzi has a deep, warm voice...
...ZETA's 39 in. The temperature of its pinch is higher than ZETA's (about 6,000,000° C.), but the pinch lasts only a few millionths of a second, about one-thousandth as long as ZETA's. Other thermonuclear machines at Los Alamos use short, straight tubes through which heavy currents are forced to flow and pinch deuterium ions. All the machines give off abundant neutrons...
...market. He went to work for General Motors, rose to be assistant treasurer at a salary of $35.000 a year before going to Du Pont as financial adviser to the late John J. Raskob. Du Font's top financial man. Young made his first million by selling short just before the 1929 crash, set up a brokerage firm with an old friend. By picking up securities that looked worthless to most people, then stepping in to run the properties involved, he added another $5,000,000 to his bank roll by 1937. But Young was not merely after money...