Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik soared aloft two years ago, all Soviet scientists suddenly became ten feet tall, with brains to match. Since then, U.S. scientists have flocked to Russia and under the rules of the current thaw, have seen things that no Westerner had ever seen before. Interviewing the returnees produced a calm, post-panic assessment of just how good (and how backward) Russia's science is. See SCIENCE, Scouting the Russians...
Throughout the quiz crisis, husky Bob Kintner (5 ft. 10½ in., 178 lbs.) has maintained, at least outwardly, a massive calm and his usual appearance of a battered but unbowed Buddha. From his apartment on Manhattan's fashionable Sutton Place (nine rooms, five TV sets), Kintner Cadillacs to work in the RCA Building by 8:10 each morning, spends at least half of his twelve-hour day group-thinking with the network committees populated by his 39 vice presidents. Few below NBC's top level know Kintner; unlike his chic, gregarious wife Jean...
...what is essentially an ancient idea: the mentally ill are sick, but still people, and they must be treated as people, if they are ever to return to society. For several centuries B.C., some Greek temples were maintained as retreats, where the emotionally disturbed could recover in a calm and restful atmosphere ("milieu therapy" in the jargon of today's psychiatry...
...exclude them from society. When we used to put a patient in seclusion, he remained as agitated as ever-only the staff was tranquilized." Here, the seclusion room is used only when the patient himself says he wants to go there to be quiet and have a chance to calm down...
...railroadman's railroadman, big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), affable Allen Greenough won a reputation at the Pennsy for his forcefulness and ability to remain calm in every circumstance. Born in San Francisco, he went to Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. before joining Pennsy as an engineering trainee in 1928, highballed up the corporate track, was boosted to vice president in 1955. Along the route, he distinguished himself by making fast decisions, stopping the buck at his door. Married and father of two sons, he is used to putting in a ten-hour day, gathering his own facts by pounding...