Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's stern laws of libel and contempt, which keep much of Britain's news out of print, made news on their own account last week...
Immediate cause of the ruckus was a strident protest by a staff psychiatrist, Dr. Jordan Scher, against the institute's decision to drop (as of July 1) his project for a forceful, unorthodox treatment of schizophrenic patients. He is getting results, claims Psychiatrist Scher, by being stern with schizophrenics, making them work, and forcing them into social situations (usually with the aid of relatives). It was too soon to judge whether Scher's method had any value (similar techniques have previously been tried and found wanting). In any case, he violated all the rules of the psychiatric club...
...system is two deep grooves built into the hull near the ship's stern (see diagram). They converge toward the propeller, and when the ship is in motion, the propeller sucks streams of water from both grooves. As the streams move together, they exert pressure on the wedge-shaped section of hull between them and "pinch" it forward, rather as a watermelon seed is pinched from between two fingers...
...early morning, S.S. President Jackson moved into Suez and took on veteran Egyptian Pilot Mahmoud Metwali. The Jackson paid $10,295 in tolls with a polite note indicating that she was obeying U.S. Government instructions to pay under protest. Then, with the U.S. flag flying at the stern and the green Egyptian flag at the foremast truck, President Jackson steamed slowly northward into the canal at the head of a convoy of four ships. Mahmoud Younis, manager of Egypt's Suez Canal administration, wired the twelve passengers a Happy Easter and a pleasant trip. At Ismailia, U.S. Lieut. General...
Beaver's Bite. The British critics' chief target is the Independent Television Authority's commercial Channel 9, which is so U.S.-infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday's feature program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble...