Word: cante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant made a tour of Air Force bases for his story on space medicine (TIME, May 26), he grew fascinated with weightlessness, the uncanny state in which man must learn to live as he hurtles through outer space. Within the earth's atmosphere, it can be produced for brief intervals in a jet plane. To experience it, Cant took a 3½-hour pre-jet-flight physical, sat through four hours of indoctrination, spent an hour in the altitude chamber breathing oxygen under pressure, finally tried out an ejection seat (it hurled...
...intensive, long-range campaign he serves: to solve the problems of man's survival in outer space. Six months ago, TIME tackled the job of picturing the efforts of U.S. space medics in color, found that there was more to picture than had been imagined. Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant went on a flying tour of U.S. Air Force space medicine centers, and for his preview of what man faces when he reaches for the stars, see MEDICINE, Outward Bound...
...cosmopolitan cant of chess players, it is legend that masters of the game are all meshuga-Yiddish for a little batty. But when they talk of Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer, the newly crowned...
...Charles Starkweather still seemed to grasp only simple things. Guns, guitars and hot-rods were good; snakes, schoolbooks and recurrent headaches were bad; the right trim to his long copper hair and the proper cant to his cigarette made him look like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect...
...divided between-schools that seek the cause and cure of the disease either in the emotions or in physical-chemical conditions. When 2,000 of the world's leading psychiatrists assembled in Zurich last week for the Second International Congress for Psychiatry, TIME'S Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant was there, to listen to their latest findings on the urgent problem of mental illness. For his report, see MEDICINE, Meeting on the Mind, The Big Sleep and Schizophrenics International...