Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spaniards cannot tell in cold figures how much the wonder drugs have cut the death rate, because their latest statistics are five years old. But Spain now produces annually 40 million doses of penicillin of 100,000 units each; with no prescription needed, many middle-class families decide for themselves when to use it, give their own injections. Perhaps the most enthusiastic testimonials to penicillin come from the most septic sources in Spain: the third-rate bull rings. In the past, many toreros lost a leg or died from common wound infections after being gored by a bull...
...generation descendant of William Goffe, is the present proprietor of the family mill. He has tied his odd bag of characters together with historical facts, New England folkways and early Americana. John Goffe's Legacy crackles with wit, adds a few asterisks to history, and makes the reader wonder how New England ever acquired a reputation for being stolid and conservative...
...part of growing up. Like a nightmare, the whole perverted episode has not really damaged young Törless-or has it? The boy had briefly "lost his sense of direction [but] an indefinable hidden disgust never quite left him . . ." Readers of this odd but provocative book may wonder whether this sentence does not apply to Old Europe as much as to Young Törless...
Sympathetic Look. Less wide-eyed in wonder than Wilder's play and a literate drama in its own right was the U.S. Steel Hour's A Wind from the South, starring Julie Harris and Donald Woods. James Costigan's play took a sympathetic look at an unmarried girl of 30, growing old with her unmarried brother in modern Ireland. It found no simple answer to the barren hopelessness of the young in a land where the old have forsaken their hope...
TITANIUM, once boomed as a wonder metal, is going begging. Demand is so low (8,000 tons yearly, v. industry capacity of 22,500 tons) that the Office of Defense Mobilization has curbed expansion of production by withholding aid, e.g., fast tax write-offs, for titanium plants. As a result, Du Pont will change plans for making titanium in Tennessee...