Word: warned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this were really a detective story, it would be unfair to report that Ilona, the slinky Hungarian blonde, really has nothing to do with the plot, or to warn the reader about the sneaky German archaeologist who thinks he has found a piece of a Dead Sea Scroll. But the book is less a whodunit than a witty who-said-it-in Author Davey's phrase, a shakerful of "the martini of human kindness." Very dry, too, without unnecessary olives...
...Genetics has already accounted scientifically for blue eyes (even in a strictly dark-eyed family). It is working toward an explanation of how the first life appeared on earth. It is offering knowledge that may lead to the cure of cancer. And it came along just in time to warn against misuse of another young science: nuclear physics. The comparative "cleanness" (low fallout) of the test bombs that the U.S. was exploding in the Pacific last week was in large part a response to the warnings of the geneticists...
...pursuit of scientific or economic security for the U.S. -it is, in the title phrase, "the pursuit of excellence." Through the study runs the conviction that the complex, highly organized U.S. society is demanding too little of its citizens, and that individuals of high capability are stifled. The authors warn that "a continuing tension between the needs of the organization and the integrity of the person . . . may well be one of the most fateful struggles in our future...
Producer Douglas set aside yet another $1,000,000 to light the publicity bonfires and warn the populace that "The Vikings Are Coming!" Reviewers all over the U.S. have been showered with plastic viking ships and savage-looking letter openers in the form of a viking dagger. Seven Norwegian seamen, lured by the hope of adding another Leif to the nautical history of the Northmen, are sailing across the Atlantic in one of the ships used in the film, and the TV cameras will be waiting for them at the docks. The opening of the picture was described by Douglas...
...soldiers and settlers of Algeria. Only the day before, Leon Delbecque, dynamic leader of the rebel junta (TIME, June 9), his once boundless faith in De Gaulle shaken by his idol's failure to name a single insurgent leader to a government post, had appeared in Paris to warn the general that unless De Gaulle revamped his Cabinet, his trip to Algeria would end in disaster...