Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN scientists, a cautious lot, are on the frontier of knowledge, they are fond of the word "perhaps." At Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory they like the word so much that they named one of their most exciting machines the Perhapsatron S-3. Perhaps the Perhapsatron and its descendants will win from the world's oceans enough energy to fill man's electric power needs for as long as the solar system exists. For the latest steps in taming the H-bomb for peacetime power, see SCIENCE, Toward H-Power...
From the other members of autodom's Big Three came equally chill words. Chrysler's Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert sent word that in his view Reuther was proposing to "fight inflation by making a whole series of new inflationary demands." Ford's Board Chairman Ernest Breech, speaking in Nashville, said "giant labor unions, with unprecedented monopoly power." are putting a "steady squeeze on corporate profits and constantly increasing the price for goods and services...
...Democratic Governor Averell Harriman has turned out to be a tough politician and a successful administrator, New York's Republicans have yet to put up a candidate to run against him in the November elections. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman.'' As the crowd applauded, Rockefeller, two seats...
...face sessions, will now move on to Thailand. Washington scuttlebutt: John Allison, 52, seasoned Far East hand and strong antiCommunist, offended Indonesia's sensitive nationalists, came under false but telling attack in Indonesia's Communist press on charges of plotting to overthrow President Sukarno. Behind-the-scenes word in Djakarta: Allison got out of step on policy with Secretary of State Dulles, urged the U.S. to listen with more sympathy to Indonesian claims to Dutch-held West New Guinea, predicted there might be a blowoff if it did not. Dulles, impressed with the need for friendship with...
...Grand National Assembly to bar university professors from politics, authorize the forcible retirement of judges unsympathetic to the government, and establish heavy fines and prison sentences for newsmen whose writings could be considered "harmful to the political or financial prestige of the state." Today, even use of the word "inflation" may render a Turkish newsman subject to prosecution...