Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flanked by his task force of high-priced pressagents and lawyers, Boston Millionaire Bernard Goldfine made a big headline decision during congressional committee hearings last summer on his dealings with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams (TIME, June 23, 1958 et seq.). He would refuse to tell the Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight about cash withdrawals of $104,973 from two of his tangled companies on the ground that the questions were not pertinent. Congress slapped him with a contempt charge...
...intellectuals] have become conservative." One reason is continued prosperity, another the implacable nature of Communism, which encourages intellectuals "to defend an existing or past society against those who argue for a future Utopia. Like Burke, they have come to look for sources of stability. Only time will tell whether a permanent change in the relationship of the American intellectual to his society is in process. There will still remain the inherent tendencies to oppose the status quo. Any status quo embodies rigidities and dogmatisms which intellectuals have an inalienable right of attacking...
...must have the feel of your boat. The boat can tell you a lot of things, but you have to respond to the feel. I say. go out with a friend and put on a blindfold or close your eyes. That's a good way to learn the feel...
...devise a blood test for cancer (other than "blood cancers" such as leukemia) have been unrewarding, though Sloan-Kettering now has high hopes based on high levels of a substance called cytolipin H in cancer victims' blood. But even if such a test was reliable, it would not tell the cancer's location. Physicians still rely mainly on traditional diagnostic methods: physical examination, visual inspection of accessible sites with such aids as the proctoscope and bronchoscope, Pap smears and X rays...
...Harold C. Mc-Clellan and his fulltime staff. The Soviet government respects Winston's business know-how, has invited him to Moscow three times for counsel on home building. Unlike Fellow Capitalist Cyrus Eaton (TIME, Jan. 19), Winston caustically criticizes Communism and all its works. Says he: "I tell the Russians that I'm a capitalist and that it's wonderful...