Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montreux, Switzerland, Ferhat Abbas, leader of the Algerian National Liberation Front (F.L.N.), rejected the French plan out of hand. "For 125 years," said Abbas, "we have served as guinea pigs for French schemes. We will settle for nothing short of independence...
...patient's hand. By pressing a button, the invalid can raise himself gently and silently off the bed, move to left or right, or lower himself into a bedside wheelchair. The machine has safety features so that the patient will not be dropped in the event of short circuits. Worst consequence: patient could be left suspended if power failed altogether, but Inventor Miller says that even then the patient would still be reasonably comfortable. When something goes wrong, a red light flashes and a bell rings on the front door of the house, summoning aid. Probable cost...
After months of chauvinistic resistance against using the U.S. Salk polio vaccine, ostensibly because the British-made vaccine is better and safer (TIME, Aug. 26), the British government finally capitulated last week. Admitting that its own vaccine is in critically short supply, the Public Health Ministry ordered "forthwith" enough Salk vaccine to supplement British vaccine supplies for inoculation of all children under 15 and expectant mothers. The policy reversal came too late to do anything about this year's grim polio season in Britain: 3,732 cases reported through August v. 2,077 for the same period last year...
...columns a week plus his syndicated name-droppings, Miller teetotals through the nightspots until 4 a.m. On dull nights he prowls for crime stories, Winchell-fashion, in a black 1957 Chrysler equipped with three short-wave radios. By 5 a.m. he goes home for supper with his wife, a onetime singer named Cindy Stoker, sleeps for an average of four hours, then bangs out one of his columns...
...against it because it would make German goods more costly in world markets. On the other hand, some economists feel that revaluation is necessary to curb inflationary pressures caused by the influx of money from West German industry's booming overseas operations-money that chases goods already in short supply precisely because of such heavy exports. Since revaluation would make the mark worth more in foreign currency, it would encourage imports, thus ease inflation...