Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal preliminaries to get a tangible remembrance from the estimated $100 million-plus estate of Philanthropist Vincent Astor, portly half brother John Jacob Astor III, ignored in Vincent's will (TIME, Feb. 16), informally entered a surprise argument. Its gist: thrice-married Playboy J.J. needs the money. Turning his coffers inside out just before sailing for England, J.J., doubtless aware that the bulk of Vincent's money is earmarked to "alleviate human misery," complained that he is down to his last...
Ranged around their long, six-sided White House table, the President of the U.S. and his Cabinet listened attentively as the slender, curly-haired visitor got up to speak. The time: midsummer 1958. The man: Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn. Gist of his remarks: a pessimistic forecast of November's congressional elections unless something was done...
...much of a good thing (TIME, June 16). So members of the government's High Committee for Study and Information on Alcoholism, chosen in 1954 "for their independence, their authority, and their knowledge of the problem,'' knew just what was expected of them. Last week the gist of the committee's 223-page report leaked to the press. To nobody's surprise, it was heartily in favor of wine...
...might spread to his own unhappy northern province of Syria, Nasser traveled one day to an aluminum army hut hurriedly set up on the border between Syria and Lebanon. There, protected by tanks and antiaircraft guns, he met Lebanon's President Fuad Chehab for the first time. Reported gist of their agreement: Chehab would back Nasser in his dispute with Iraq if Nasser guaranteed that he would not try to incorporate Lebanon into his United Arab Republic...
...Lederle vaccine has been tried on 148 families in a University of Minnesota housing project, but because highly detailed studies are continuing on the 542 subjects (285 adults, 257 children), only preliminary reports have been made. The gist: children show a full antibody response, as expected; in adults the antibody rise is less marked, may be complicated by earlier infections. Proponents of live-virus vaccines are confident that eventually their one-drop capsules or laced syrups will virtually displace the needle and killed-virus preparations even...