Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...required annually of all winners in the field of science. He will tell how three men in a tiny laboratory at the Children's Hospital followed logical scientific methods to discover the long-sought method of cultivating polio virus in a test-tube. Although their methods were only a slight modification of a research technique first introduced in 1907, they produced a discovery sufficiently significant to inspire the nation-wide Salk Vaccine campaign...
Named by President Eisenhower to follow Caffery in Cairo was slight, handsome Henry A. ("Hank") Byroade, 41, now the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs. A 1937 graduate from West Point, he played basketball and B-team football, served in the Army Engineers and directed the building of B-29 bases in China during World War II. He became a brigadier general at 32 while serving as General George Marshall's assistant during the 1946 pacification attempt in China. He came to the State Department on loan from the Army and stayed...
...Khyber Rifles (TIME, Jan. 11), the hero (Rock Hudson) is a British officer, who in this case has a Midwestern twang to his speech. He affects to defect to the enemy, but only in order to diddle some secrets out of a raja (Arnold Moss) with a slight New York accent. Add to the linguistic confusion a Hindu girl (Ursula Thiess) who has a German accent, and even the children for whom the movie is intended may suspect that the action is not quite faithful to history...
...take over the peripheral nations bite by bite." The major error in his reasoning is the idea that a weapons stalemate will not occur for a number of years. Not only is it impossible to make an accurate count of armaments, but in an era of atomic platitude a slight advantage in weapons provides a nation scant protection against destruction of its own cities. The question, then, is whether the United States can prevent the present stalemate from channeling into a Soviet victory...
...least one respect they are right. In spite of all the stalling over the Senator's lame elbow, his opponents will probably be able to force a vote before the Christmas Eve deadline. If the vote comes, McCarthy's chances of acquittal are slight at best...