Word: system
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DeGaullist system of government is actually a "return to tradition," said Jacques Cabau, French research attache, in his speech on "France Under DeGaulle," last night at the Harvard International Seminar. The failure of Parliamentary Democracy in France endangered national unity and produced a need for a paternalistic, "guided democracy...
...serious error to assume that departure from the Stalinist model means movement toward the democratic constitutional model," they say. For the West, they suggest: "We had better turn our face elsewhere, rest our hopes on other foundations than on the belief that the Soviet system will mellow and abandon its long-range goals of world domination...
...quick succession came the hormones ACTH and cortisone, which also produced brief remissions in acute leukemia (as in some other cancers of the blood and lymphatic system). Then came another antimetabolite. pioneered by Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal of Memorial Center: 6-mercaptopurine, which interferes with cell nutrition by supplying a counterfeit purine. Physicians treating acute leukemia now ring the changes on these, using one until it loses its effect, then switching to another, sometimes back to the first. No child victims of acute leukemia have yet been saved, but Dr. Farber can report a heartening gain. A dozen years...
AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH BELL SYSTEM. Earnings for the quarter ending May 31 jumped to $1.32 a share, v. $1.16 a year earlier. President Frederick R. Kappel said that nearly 800,000 new telephones were connected in the quarter and that long-distance conversations rose more than 10% over last year...
...commuterlike service would produce only confusion, but last week they banked steeply onto Continental's course. The innovation proved so successful in eliminating nagging airport waits (it also helped boost Continental's revenue passenger miles 61% last month) that American Airlines now plans to try the system on selected runs, and Trans World Airlines is studying...