Word: tampering
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...editor who took over for last week's issue, chubby, 49-year-old Robert L. Skelton, was in no hurry to tamper with the magic formula devised half a century ago by an insatiably curious young barrister-journalist named George Allardice Riddell. In the British police courts, Riddell found an inexhaustible treasure of news; he set his reporters to mining it. Unlike American scandal sheets, the News of the World has no "sob sister" interviews with murderers and mistresses; the paper never tries to tell a story before it is told in court, because of Britain's strict...
...Constitution: "He who does not contribute to the community may not receive from it"). Almost all businesses are confiscated by the simple device of convicting the owners of collaboration with the Germans. The Catholic Church remains Tito's strongest potential opposition. So far, he has not dared to tamper with it seriously...
Mating to Order. Dr. Bissonnette found it a cinch to tamper with nature's timetable.* He put all sorts of creatures in quarters with blinds to exclude the daylight and electric lights to simulate it. To make a species mate to order, he had only to control properly the length of the indoor...
...present price of 26? a pound, on the New York Exchange, this would increase margins 1½times.) Few knew whether this would hold down prices. But it raised the tempers of cotton patriots so high that they loudly threatened to liquidate OPA if it continued to tamper with the sacred right of cotton to rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work, ceilings would. No cotton patriot thought Bowles could win that fight. Oklahoma's cotton-loving Senator Elmer Thomas growled ominously...
Died. Daniel Willard, 81, last of the old-line, up-from-the-tracks U.S. railroad presidents, savior of the Baltimore & Ohio; in Baltimore. Farm-born Uncle Dan started railroading in 1880 as a tie-tamper, wound up bossing the giant B. & 0. for 32 years. Unlike most railroaders, Dan Willard got along with labor, was regarded as a liberal by his good friend President Roosevelt...