Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between percussioned boredom in the suburbs and rural depravity in the South, All in One offers Paul Draper's clean and stylish tap dancing. Draper seems to have grown more versatile, particularly on the satiric side; but what remains uniquely his is the tapping to classical themes, the suggestion of ballet grace...
...Vocational Rehabilitation is doling out $30 million in Government aid to state agencies to help put the handicapped in jobs. Overall, some 60,000 disabled workers found jobs in industry in 1954, and the U.S. Government estimates that the number will jump 200% by 1959. But this will tap only a fraction of the potential manpower. Many businessmen are frankly reluctant to hire the handicapped because they fear that such workers are prone to injury, will hurt themselves on the job and thus boost insurance compensation rates. The fears are largely groundless. Some state compensation laws make a company responsible...
...Harlem-born Sammy was smitten with show business about as soon as he could take a few dance steps. At three, Sammy hit the Orpheum Circuit in a flashy family act, has stuck with his father and uncle ever since-they still open his act with some nostalgic tap routines. During a burlesque stint, when he should have been in school, Sammy was pinched in an A.S.P.C.C. raid. Then came the skinny years of the Depression, a wartime stint in Special Services, the postwar years when the act kept getting stranded between guest engagements. Today, signed up to star...
Increases of 1000 times the normal amount of radioactivity in Cambridge's tap water have been recorded by the Sanitary Engineering Department since the beginning of experimental nuclear detonations, Harold A. Thomas, associate professor of Sanitary Engineering, said recently. However, this amount would have to be multiplied 30,000 times before it would become medically important, he added...
Less than 50 years ago, Saudi Arabia was a desert kingdom whose prime source of income was a head tax imposed on Moslem pilgrims traveling to Mecca. Today the derricks and pipelines of a huge U.S. corporation tap rich pools of oil beneath the desert sands and turn them into streams of gold that pour into the royal coffers of Saudi Arabia at a rate of $200 million yearly. Last week TIME's Middle East Correspondent Keith Wheeler cabled an account of the problems and promises engendered by this desert alchemy...