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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family to Support. Einstein's family lived in Bavaria, where his father sold electrical goods. Albert was born in Ulm, in 1879. As a child he would make up songs, which he chanted in his room. But at school he was shy and backward, and his parents wondered whether his brain was up to par. When he was twelve, he got a copy of Euclid's Geometry, Thirty years later, Einstein recalled: "It made me realize that man is capable, through the force of thought alone, of achieving . . . stability and purity." At 13 he read Kant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Genius | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Labor Day, experts estimated, every child aged one to nine can be vaccinated, plus three-quarters of all under 20. Although polio is rated as a summer disease, about half of all cases each year occur after Labor Day and 40% of them after mid-September. So inoculation, even after Labor Day, would give worthwhile protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Where Is the Vaccine? | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

hands and crumple it. If she likes it, she will buy a few yards and put it on a shelf. When inspiration strikes, she dashes off a simple little sketch that looks, to the layman, something like a child's matchstick drawing of a man. But to the seven sample hands who work in the room next door to her cubbyhole office, the stark lines are enough directions for them to start draping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The American Look | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...corners Kimani at his mountain cave and strangles him. Then he carries Kimani's infant son down to the family farm, hoping that the child may grow up with his own sister's baby - just as he and Kimani had before. In some vague way, suggests Author Ruark, the next generation may find peace; if not, the surviving baby can always serve as an excuse for an equally bloody sequel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caveat Emptor | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...totalize ruthlessly and process man to the pattern they desire. But at the person-to-person level we shall always beat them, because at that level we have something to give that they cannot match. We have the fundamental proposition of our Revolution to give: that man is the child of Nature's God; that he carries within him a spark that links him with the universe and differentiates him from the animals ... By practicing person-to-person democracy we can teach the world to see in every individual that individual spark which gives to the principles of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American Dilemma | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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