Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's wealthiest financiers, has two children by her previous marriage, a son by this one.) His chief handicaps: a malicious wit-"Nothing outside, nothing inside" was his verdict on a bald colleague-and the widespread feeling that he is a coldly ambitious golden boy "sunk in upper-class surroundings...
...Helpful Crab. The radio astronomers of Cambridge's famous Cavendish Laboratory started with the assumption that if the moon has any atmosphere at all, the atoms of gas in it will be ionized (split into electrically charged particles) by sunlight, just as they are in the thin upper fringe of the earth's atmosphere. Such an ionized gas will bend radio waves, and the amount of bending will give by calculation the density of the charged particles...
...estimated 37 million Americans, just under a quarter of the population, wear false teeth (i.e., upper or lower plates, or both), and about 10 million more use partial dentures. For the great majority, regular removable plates are sufficient, but others find ordinary false teeth uncomfortable and irritating. For these "denture neurotics" one possible solution is a feat of tiny-scaled civil engineering known as the dental implant, i.e., fastening the denture to the jawbone to hold it in place permanently...
...building Punch into its readable and financially hale condition circ. (132,000), Muggeridge has also built Muggeridge into a major TV personality. As commentator and interviewer on the BBC (a favorite Punch target), he treats sentimentality, mediocrity and many a sacred cow with waspish wit, which, coupled with his upper-crust air, has made the popular press bill him as "the man you love to hate." Muggeridge will go on being fascinatingly hateful on TV, plans a novel and a biography of George (1984) Orwell. At Punch, where Muggeridge's brisk ways produced some sparks as well as sparkle...
Died. Dr. Otto Ernst Heinrich Hermann Suhr, 63, Socialist lord mayor of West Berlin, doughty foe of Communism, Social Democratic delegate to the Bonn parliament and President-elect of the Bundesrat, the Parliament's Upper House, sometime (before Hitler and since 1948) professor of political science, onetime (1922-33) secretary of the German Trade Union Association; of leukemia; in Berlin...