Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain gave notice last week that it is, and intends to remain, one of the Big Three atomic powers. In a White Paper presented to the House of Commons, Defense Minister Lord Alexander announced that British-made atomic weapons, including atomic bombs, are being delivered to the British forces, and that the Royal Air Force is building a fleet of strategic bombers, "capable of using the atomic weapon to the fullest extent...
...first, gamma globulin seemed to have proved itself as a weapon of definite though limited value against poliomyelitis. So. certainly, thought Pittsburgh's Dr. William McD. Hammon, the epidemiologist who pioneered mass tests with it (TIME, Nov. 3, 1952). But this week a score of the nation's leading experts on polio and immunization turned thumbs down on G.G. (Dr. Hammon was on the panel, but his position was not disclosed...
Three cheers for Dr. Dallis! At last a deadly, disastrous weapon has been placed in the hands of an educator . . . Perhaps some day comic strips and comic books will once again furnish our children and us with wholesome entertainment and educate us besides...
Since Mother is played by Mary Boland, Lullaby is considerably more farcical than Freudian. And since Mother-when not making herself pathetic and ill-used with every weapon in the Momist kit-proves a good deal of an old rip, Veteran Actress Boland comes through in her breeziest style of impeccable low comedy. Each of her intrusions on her son and daughter-in-law (well played by Jack Warden and Kay Medford) makes a bright little blob of color for the play...
...President's most controversial proposal is that the Government should hold secret polls of employees on whether they want to strike. Since most unions already conduct such polls on their own, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther was affronted. He labeled the plan "the most vicious strikebreaking weapon ever devised." Actually most labor specialists agree that the plan would be costly, unwieldy and no help to collective bargaining. And it would get the Government deeper into disputes, instead of getting it out, which is Ike's avowed policy...