Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead to shooting and war. The French were united as at no time since World War II in demanding Nasser's destruction and thereby, they hoped, reversing the decay of their position in North Africa. The British, while speaking more softly, were moving divisions and insisting through stiffened upper lips on their right and need to fight as a last resort against the loss of their irreplaceable strategic and material stake in the Middle East. As NATO met last week in Paris to contemplate the crisis that enfolds it by enfolding its two major European partners, Belgium...
...youngsters who reach sixth grade each year) has been exposed to the advanced program so far. How has it affected them? In natural sciences, science reading and vocabulary the gifted sixth-graders moved from average ninth-grade work to work comparable to that done by the upper fourth of ninth-grade classes...
...Reconstructive Surgery. Drs. Lyon P. Strean and Lyndon A. Peer studied 228 cases of cleft palate at Newark's Hospital of St. Barnabas, 40% among first-born children. Going back over the mothers' experiences during the critical weeks of pregnancy-when the two halves of the upper jaw normally fuse in the palatal arch-the doctors found that 23% had been ill or injured, and no less than 68% recalled emotional disturbances. Notable among these were a death in the family, loss of a job, marital incompatibility, worry because of a previous miscarriage; 19% had "morning sickness" with...
Young Turk. To the money market born, Bill Martin is a son of the late William McChesney Martin Sr., longtime president of St. Louis' Federal Reserve Bank. After a sheltered upbringing in upper-crust West St. Louis. Martin entered Yale at 17, and after graduation got a $67.50-a-month clerk's job in his father's bank. When President Martin found out where Junior was working, he eased him out and young Martin went to work for a small St. Louis brokerage house. After two years he became a partner and went to Manhattan...
...noon comes at 2 p.m. and early afternoon at 4:30 p.m. No Spaniard who is anyone goes to work before noon. Lunch is a two-or three-hour affair beginning at 2 p.m., and dinner stretches from 11 p.m. into the small hours of the morning. Among upper-class Spaniards and those who aspire to that state, too much interest in work is considered bad form; if business must be done, let it be concluded...