Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room for a little news about the lighter things in life. I sure liked that page-and-a-half spread you gave to that scandal in France about those rich people trying to knock one another off. Oh, those French, eh, Mr. Auer! And I can hardly wait to see how TIME covers that other scandal that broke last week in France about the government officials and the nude dancing girls. I guess the issue was a little too crowded to squeeze that in too. But I am glad you could give two-thirds of a page to the rumors...
Senate Sins. The tragedy of Clarence Cannon's life is that the U.S. Senate so often restores the budget cuts he has made. "The Senate piles everything on earth on these bills." he grumps, "and they always wait until the last minute to do it." Cannon always wants the House to insist on its cuts in conference committee. "Sam Rayburn says, 'Hell, we've got to get out of here.' I always say we can't accept this change. But Sam always says we've got to get the hell out of here...
Because of fog -"the last thing we expected to see in New Delhi" -the royal plane was two hours late, but Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, proved well worth the wait. As beaming Prime Minister Nehru looked on at the airport, waves of schoolgirls swept up to the handsome visitor to hang garlands of marigolds about his neck. The prince made a mock stagger under the weight of the flowers. "I feel like a bullock with all these garlands," he shouted, and the crowd roared with laughter. When some children began playfully pelting him with blossoms, he pelted right back...
...Congress have long been at odds over how far and how fast the Government should go in pushing atomic power. The AEC felt that the U.S. should go slow, wait for private enterprise to take the initiative in building commercial plants. Many Congressmen felt that the Government had to take the lead, offer fat subsidies to get large-scale commercial 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...
Astronomers can hardly wait for the day when these first space scouts are launched. For oddly enough, they know less in many ways about the planets, the earth's neighbors, than they do about far-distant stars. The reason is that stars shine in their own light, revealing much about themselves to astronomers' spectroscopes. The solar system's planets are visible only in the reflected light of the sun. Their spectra carry little firm information, and the details that can be seen on their surfaces are clear enough to excite but too vague to satisfy human curiosity...