Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...devoted following among policemen from New Haven to San Diego, who welcome Dragnet's non-nonsense approach. Says 30-year-old Jack Webb, creator of the show: "We don't do it by underplaying-because underplaying is still acting. We try to make it as real as a guy pouring a cup of coffee...
...Springfield, Ohio one night, two pledges of the Wittenberg College chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, exhausted after two sleepless-nights of initiation preliminaries, were driven eight miles out of town and left to make their own way back. Hit by a truck at 8 a.m. after they had fallen asleep on the edge of the road, one was killed, the other injured. Wittenberg ordered officers of the fraternity to resign, suspended its charter for the rest of the year...
Basically, it isn't so much the heat of battle that makes a soldier break down and become psychoneurotic; it's a combination of past woes and the sympathy he knows he'll get behind the lines. Later, pensions seem to help make the neuroses last longer. So says Dr. Lothar B. Kalinowsky, research psychiatrist at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons, after a careful study of the war neuroses in various armies...
More Water. Ferdinand Ripley Schemm, 50, son of a Michigan doctor, had set his heart on being a surgeon. But after three years of practice his hands were so injured by X rays that he had to make a fresh start. Back at the University of Michigan, he studied internal medicine while his wife got her M.A. and wrote her first novel, Fireweed...
...atoms of uranium-235 and are normally used to form plutonium (for atom bombs) out of nonfissionable U-238. Each neutron that is used to form an atom of tritium means less plutonium in the AEC's stockpile. "The diversion of neutrons from the manufacture of plutonium to make tritium," says Dr. Bacher, "would mean a real sacrifice of potential atomic bombs in order to obtain the ingredients for hydrogen bombs...