Word: teething
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embarrassing interlude. For the first time in my experience, thanks to Frederic Warriner's Launcelot and Stanley Jay's Gobbo, the scene came out satisfactorily. Warriner, in an outlandish patch-work costume, turns the clown into a merry stutterer; and Jay sports an over-sized pointed nose and few teeth. Their combined antics are hilarious...
Convinced, the 18-member Joint Committee unanimously voted out a $145 million authorization for a third plutonium reactor, to be built near the 14-year-old veteran at Hanford. Last week, in the teeth of President Eisenhower's letter declaring that "there can be no justifiable basis to proceed" until the Administration decides that the third reactor is needed, both the House and the Senate lopsidedly approved the Joint Committee's bill...
Stopping it is another matter. Because the misrepresentation is in the beguiling pitch rather than the written contract, FTC got a "cease and desist" agreement with only five of 30 firms it investigated. To give FTC some teeth, the subcommittee is considering a bill providing a maximum penalty of $5,000 fine and/or five years' imprisonment for advance-fee operators, hopes that new public awareness will weaken the racket...
...there were also P-4Os to fly. With terrifying shark teeth painted on their long, snarling snouts, they held their own and better with Jap Zeroes from Kunming to Thailand. And in them, Greg Boyington learned the unforgiving trade of the fighter pilot. He was an ace when he heard that the entire outfit was about to be drafted into the Army. By then, Boyington suspected that "Laughing Boy" Chennault was old-school Army, and had no use for marines. ("I shouldn't think he would even want a dead marine's body stinking up his precious China...
...more technicians but more physicians, whose training is long, costly and difficult. The U.S. must train 8,900 new M.D.s every year by 1970, as against 6,800 a year now-which will mean setting up 14 to 20 new medical schools. Personnel is already in hen's-teeth supply, causing barefaced piracy. Merck's Connor quoted one drug company's research director: "I have the greatest spy service in the Western Hemisphere. We scout people all the time. It's a dangerous game, but the stakes are high...