Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft-spoken Hoosier settled down in an incompletely furnished office in Washington's Health, Education and Welfare Department last week to tackle a big job. As special assistant (to Secretary Marion Folsom) for health and medical affairs, Dr. Lowell Thelwell Coggeshall, 55, has a roving commission, but his special concerns are improving research, financing medical education and making hospital care simpler and cheaper...
...tough, successful TV star in David Karp's Good Old Charley Faye. The principal characterization was well done in the writing as well as in the acting, and there were some nice, nostalgic throwbacks to the vaudeville of the '20s as old jokes were recalled during a soft-shoe routine ("You take a shower this morning?" "Why? Is one missing?" And: "Care to join me in a cup of coffee?" "Is there room for both of us?"). But the play had little to say, and fuzzed it badly at the implausible climax...
Behind the Plate. As a string-straight teen-ager refugee from a shoe factory, Connie learned his trade in a day when pitchers lobbed the ball underhand and catchers grabbed it on the first bounce some 15 ft. back of the plate. It was all too soft for Connie. His only equipment a fingerless kid glove, Connie walked out to the mound one day and told his pitcher to fire the ball overhand. The unexpected stunt almost started a riot among the fans, but the style stuck...
Actually, many Southern newsmen took it for granted that their papers would soft-pedal such an emotionally explosive issue. But the surprise is that so many editors are now willing to stick their necks out. It is only about ten years since newspapers in the South began in any numbers to break such old habits as depicting the Negro only as a criminal or a minstrel end man, and learning such new ones as calling him "Mr."-a practice still far from universal. Only in the same short period have Southern papers started to drop the tag "Negro" in stories...
...prime example was aluminum. Though hard aluminum alloys are still barred, soft aluminum is not, and increasing amounts have been shipped to Communist nations. Soft aluminum can be easily reprocessed into aircraft-strength alloys. Another sore point was copper. Great Britain alone shipped more than 100,000 tons of copper to the Soviet bloc, almost 30% of Russia's annual production, and it was sold at a time when the U.S. itself was short of copper. Furthermore, most of it came from mines in Rhodesia that had been developed with U.S. loans. In addition, a whole group of strategic...