Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Technical Dam-Burst." Taking time out this week, Gropius will go to New Orleans to receive the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, the profession's highest award, given in the past to such men as Louis Henri Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. It will also give Gropius a chance to get some long-brooding concerns off his chest. Says Gropius: "We have now amassed such a tremendous arsenal of techniques that their bristling display has nearly robbed us of our sense of balance...
...Originally a South American infection, the virus of myxomatosis was first used in 1950 to cut down the Australian rabbit population. In 1952 a French pediatrician-out to get the pests who had been nibbling on his estate-imported cultures, inoculated two wild rabbits, started an epidemic that spread rapidly through Europe and Great Britain...
...kids enjoy "the risk and uncertainty of the unknown . . . tend to diverge from stereotyped meanings, to perceive personal success by unconventional standards, to seek out careers that do not conform to what is expected of them." Concluded Getzels and Jackson: "It is no less than a tragedy that in American education at all levels we fail to distinguish between our convergent and divergent talents-or, even worse, that we try to convert our divergent students into convergent students...
Princeton University Marian Anderson, singer, alternate U.S."' delegate to the U.N L.H.D. Citation: "Her transcendent powers of human understanding have made her our most influential cultural ambassador, to the world at large." James Gilluly, staff geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Sc.D. Citation: "Dean of American field geologists, inimitable investigator of the inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman...
...world records were set. But it seemed obvious that in the sprints, weight and jumping events, the U.S. could be confident of holding its own this summer in two big international track events: the U.S.-Soviet track meet next month and the Pan American Games in August...