Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year passed the so-called "Tombstone Law." Under it, all battle-cited Navy, Marine and Coast Guard officers are promoted one grade upon being piped out of service. This allowed a generous wash of war-decorated four-stripe captains, for example, to engrave "Rear Admiral" across their business cards, social invitations-and tombstones...
...capacity by the extra demands of air conditioners and electric fans during one of New York's worst heat waves, cut off, blacking out a five-square-mile slice of Manhattan with a population of 500,000. At about 3 p.m., the blackout shadows fell impartially across every social stratum in the nation's most complex city: millionaires in air-cooled Park Avenue apartments sweated in the unaccustomed heat, while across Central Park, Puerto Rican kids swarmed from the tenements and splashed happily in the sluice of fire hydrants, which the cops thoughtfully turned...
...Department of Church and Society issued a 56-page report urging white Christians in rich countries to meet the challenge of social changes. Their responsibility is to help colored people in poor countries realize their aspirations...
That a substantial number of Negro physicians, especially the younger ones, want this sort of thing was clear. A few years ago N.M.A. conventions were largely social, did not get rolling before 10 a.m.. ana only 20% of the attendance represented young doctors (out of medical school ten years or less). Last week there was an S.R.O. crowd for the steroids meeting at 8 a.m., and half the registration was of ten-year (and under) doctors...
space age is Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, 49, third (after John D. Ill and Nelson) of the five famed Rockefeller brothers. A blue-eyed, trim (180 Ibs.) six-footer, Laurance Rockefeller hardly needs more money; he is worth about $200 million. But he believes that wealthy men have a social responsibility to risk their riches, invest in inventive young companies. Says he: "I like doing constructive things with my money, rather than just trying to make more." The "constructive thing" was to put $5,000,000 into some two dozen long-shot companies since World War II. In doing...