Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Pittsburgh and one of the nation's top testmakers, e.g., his nonprofit American Institute for Research tests prospective pilots for U.S. and foreign airlines. Experience has persuaded him that thousands of Americans are miscast in wrong careers, and so he is busy with a far-reaching cure: Project TALENT, "the first scientifically planned national inventory of human talents...
...cure juvenile delinquency is to ask bad apples why they have worms. So argues Psychologist Charles W. Slack, who came upon the method accidentally in a Harvard project started four years ago called Streetcorner Research. Originally, he set up shop in a Cambridge storefront and paid young punks to talk their troubles into a tape recorder to find out what made them tick. In the process, he discovered to his surprise that they talk their troubles out: the crime rate among Slack's subjects has fallen by half...
Died. Dr. Conrad Arnold Elvehjem, 61, president for six years of the University of Wisconsin and biochemist whose identification of nicotinic acid as a new vitamin (now called niacin) led directly to the cure of pellagra, and who won medicine's Lasker Award in 1952; of a heart attack; in Madison...
...famous people, including Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, are reading his poetry-he notes their verdict, "that I can do a lot if I don't give up and write advertisements." He is also reading and talking prodigiously, beginning to drink, and looking for "a permanent cure for the irrational side of my unhappiness...
...Wild Beasts. The cure does not come easily. Graduated and living in New York, he wavers between thoughts of suicide and huge, gusty waves of euphoria in which he imagines playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the top of an empty skyscraper "with all New York about 600 feet below you . . . With joy speaking over them: O ye millions, I embrace you . . . I kiss all the world . . . and all mankind shall be as brothers beneath thy tender and wide wings...