Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the narrow stubbles of Vermont to the vast fields of Kansas, U.S. wheat farmers last week filed into courthouses one-room schools, community meeting halls and country stores to make a decision. The question they faced was one of both principle and pocketbook. Should they accept stern federal control of wheat production in return for high price supports, or should they take their chances in a free market...
...about a great deal but hardly described at all, he gives in to his lust and goes after the girl Stephanie. By the scheming of a subordinate on the police force, he is caught, tried, and sent to jail (under South Africa's Immorality Act). His father, a stern old Boer scratches his name out of the family Bible and quietly dies. His wife leaves him. The whole family is ostracized by the community. "And I grieve for him," writes Paton, "and the house he has made to fall with him, not as with Samson the house...
...ECAdministrator, now back at Studebaker, and Roger Stevens, Michigan real-estate potentate who engineered the $25 million purchase of Manhattan's Empire State Building (TIME, June 4, 1951). Others, such as Bernard Baruch's secretary, Miss Mary Boyle, and W. Averell Harriman's protege, Philip Stern, research director of the Democratic National Committee, were possibly stand-ins for bigger money. Detroit, which already has three newspapers (the locally owned News, Hearst's Times and Jack Knight's Free Press), buzzed with speculation over whether Moody and his backers would dare to start...
Meanwhile, Navy Under Secretary Charles Thomas asked Navy departmental heads to report detailed facts on their procurement plans. Some of the admirals replied with vague generalizations. Thomas issued a stern order for precise detail. On the second round, all complied except Admiral Wallin, who, in effect, told Anderson and Thomas to content themselves with broad policy and leave the details to the admirals. Since, as every Pentagonian knows, broad policy is frequently determined by details, Anderson considered that he was getting a well-known form of Pentagon runaround. Wallin was relieved of his command and transferred to the Puget Sound...
Nine days of competition at the second annual salaam to celestial beauty at Long Beach, Calif, were climaxed by the crowning of a new Miss Universe: Christiane Martel, 18, a green-eyed brunette fashion model from Paris. Height: 5 ft. 3 in.; weight: 125 Ibs.; hull dimensions (stem to stern) 33-22-35. Photographers snapped a beaming picture of the winner surrounded by the runners-up from the U.S., Japan, Mexico and Australia. After a tough hour posing, Miss Universe sounded (in French) like most any other working girl: "My feet are killing...