Word: snafus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added up to one of the biggest U.S. news snafus in years, triggered by a U.S. Supreme Court order so terse that the entire Washington press corps misunderstood it. "The appeal is dismissed," the Justices said, as they refused to accept an appeal of a case in which a lower court had held South Carolina's bus segregation law unconstitutional. Then the Supreme Court cryptically cited an obscure, 27-year-old Nebraska civil case, Slaker v. O'Connor, that touched off the bulletins. Actually, the only relationship between Slaker v. O'Connor and the case at hand...
Although polio suffered one of its periodic (and unexplainable) natural declines in the U.S. during 1955, doctors credited the Salk vaccine with causing a 25% drop in the number of polio cases among the 7,000,000 children who were vaccinated. It had this success despite distribution snafus and faulty vaccine batches. In 1956 the vaccine will be safer and, doctors hope, at least 80% effective in preventing paralytic polio. How will it reach the children...
...company was up to its ears in the most unfavorable corporation publicity in recent years. More and more medical men were asking for a re-examination of Salk vaccine production techniques (see MEDICINE), but it was Cutter that had borne the brunt of public indignation over the early snafus, and it was Cutter's vaccine that was banned by the U.S. Public Health Service. There was some reason for this: Cutter injections were accompanied by a far higher proportion of polio cases than those of any other company...
...magazine to military readers. TIME uses the established distribution facilities of Air Force Times, and also Stars and Stripes. It is Perret's job to unsnarl the ever occurring transportation snags, and to solve the multitude of snafus that occur in the complicated business of distributing promptly each week thousands of copies of TIME to 550 military newsstands...
Good & Bad. To support his charges, Voorhees is short on the documentation which old Newsman Voorhees should have known enough to supply. Furthermore, he glosses over the fact that many of the censorship violations and other troubles with correspondents were due to snafus . among the Army censors themselves. But Voorhees does pay his respects to many reporters who in his judgment did a good job. Topping his list is the Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart. Among several dozen others who rate high marks on his list: the Associated Press's Leif Erickson, Reuters' Ronald Bachelor, I.N.S. Correspondent...