Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past two years the prison has been the scene of 16 disorders, including riots and attempted escapes. Last week, in the 17th and most spectacular try, four armed convicts held five guards and six fellow prisoners hostage, and kept the combined forces of the National Guard and prison authorities at bay for 82 hours, the second-longest prison siege in history (the longest: 100 hours, in 1952, at the State Prison of Southern Michigan, at Jackson). Scene of the attempted break was the Detention Demerit Building, popularly known as Cherry Hill, where the prison's most unruly criminals...
...that has gone before (Geneva, EDC, the Paris accords), Mendès-France, for all his spectacular performance, has regarded himself as merely clearing the decks. Last week the Premier stepped down as his own Foreign Minister and persuaded his able Minister of Finance, Edgar Faure, to move over to the Quai d'Orsay. Faure, who was Premier once himself (for 40 days in 1952) and would like to be again, is a lawyer and econo mist, a moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation...
Medicine has made spectacular strides in the 20th century, but people may be too impressed with its wonders. Said John L. Bach, A.M.A. press chief, speaking before a gathering of doctors in Hattiesburg, Miss.: "The word 'science' now carries some of the connotations of magic in the nonscientific man's vocabulary. So much has been written on what's new in medical science and what science reveals that it is [hard] for the man in the street to understand where science leaves off and science fiction begins." As a result, said Bach, the patient often reveres...
...Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m.. NBC). Jazz version of Pinafore, with Perry Como, Kitty Kallen, Herb Shriner...
...which not only helped give a boost to such peace stocks as autos (up 112%) but also brought about repatriation of big French investments in Indo-China. Aciéries de Longwy (steel) jumped from $38 a share to $73; Suez Canal shares rose nearly 50% to $350. Most spectacular gain: Esso Standard of France, which soared almost 1,000% following the discovery of oil near Bordeaux (TIME, Sept...