Word: specialization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iain Norman Macleod, 45, Minister of Labor. Neither wealthy nor of aristocratic background, affable, bright-eyed Iain Macleod is believed by Tory leaders to have a special knack for reflecting the opinions of the middle class, added considerably to his political luster by correctly insisting that last week's election should be fought on domestic economic issues. An instinctive political animal, Macleod has been ambitiously reading up on Colonial Office policies and problems, but Macmillan may well decide he is still needed in the Labor Ministry to cope with Britain's unions. Either way, his name...
...first time, two special ($5,000) Lasker awards went to members of Congress for championing increased appropriations for medical research: Alabama's Senator Lister Hill and Rhode Island's Congressman John E. Fogarty...
...glassy calm and only faintly overcast as the submarine U.S.S. Archerfish hove to, 15 miles southwest of Key West, over Vestal Shoal. Flooding her tanks, Archerfish submerged and settled gently on the coral-sand bottom at 322 ft. On the surface, the submarine rescue ship Penguin maneuvered from a special mooring until she was directly over the sub, double-checking her position by UQC (underwater sound communication). Then Penguin lowered a diving bell. Of the four men who rode it down to 300 ft., only one was inside; three were skindivers with backpacks of Scuba gear, and they hitched...
...hearing of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight had not lasted long before a picture emerged from memory and began to dominate the scene. It was a picture of a tall, handsome young man in the isolation booth, his face contorted with mental effort, his lips muttering a kind of private stream-of-consciousness through which he tried to find the answers to Twenty One's difficult questions. Bearer of a distinguished name, Charles Van Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could...
Cheers for Pius. Plans for the North American College were begun by Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, who visited the U.S. in 1853-54 as special papal legate. Undeterred by an assassination plot hatched by anti-Catholic fanatics during his U.S. tour, Bedini asked the Holy See to furnish land and buildings, U.S. bishops to provide funds. Quartered in a converted convent on Via dell'Umilta (Humility Street), the school opened hopefully in 1859 with twelve students from seven states (three of the twelve later became archbishops). Pope Pius IX came himself for Mass, Communion and breakfast (including ice cream...