Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fickle Ones. In the Assembly, the opposition was not large, but it was noisy. Male delegates talked interminably about the value of tradition. Just when Mme. Ngo thought she had won them over in committee, they would wriggle free. "Really," complained Mme. Ngo, "men change their minds much more easily than women." But gradually, in an Assembly tightly controlled by her brother-in-law, the opposition melted, and last week the Family Bill became the law of the land...
...Oympic team, where they ran headlong into the great European skiers. Working out on a slalom slope in Italy, they were passed by the French women's team. "They flashed by us like jet planes," Penny recalls. "Betsy and I just looked at each other, speechless. We thought we should have stayed at home." Neither of the girls did well in the Olympics. Says Penny philosophically: "All we did was get our first dose of higher education at Cortina...
...social sciences; quirkily, he remarks that "I retain what may be an erroneous view that the natural scientists are less contentious, more generous, and, except for physicists and geneticists, less intellectual." thought to be; so that if I attend a party people think I am observing them even when I am not, and if they meet me on a plane they ask me whether or not I think they are upper-middlebrows...
...interviewing, surrendered to impulse last week. In place of chatting with his usual guest, Hecht wrote a way-gone whimsy. The Three Echoes on a Cloud-a bull session on world problems between Helen of Troy, Empress Josephine and Joe Stalin, perched on adjacent clouds in limbo. Sample thought: "We'll divide this into East Cloudia and West Cloudia." Hecht himself played Stalin in full Red uniform with all the passion of a snowman in Siberia. Next week: Hecht as Casanova...
...atomic power going now. Last week a special committee of businessmen and engineers appointed by new AEC Chairman John A. McCone to advise him suggested a solution. The Government would pay a major part of the costs of constructing prototype plants up to 80,000 kw. Whenever the AEC thought experience justified building a 200,000-to-5000,000-kw. plant of a particular type, it would tell industry so. Thereafter, industry normally would be expected to do the job alone. If no company came forward and the AEC was still convinced that the plant would hasten low-cost atomic...