Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passengers' heads are clamped into position to prevent a neck-snapping jolt during takeoff, if some kind of magnetic suits are provided to hold them to the floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision alone to keep his balance? Maybe. One of the doctors suggests a way to find out: 1) put a congenital deaf-mute (who has never had a normal sense of balance) in a diving suit; 2) submerge him until the buoyancy of water exactly balances...
...What we know is just the tiniest fragment," said a Wayne University professor of physics. "For the whole, we depend upon faith." Even the "law of chance" presupposes a law, argued an anthropologist. "Whose law? For me, I prefer the belief in a creator, divine, supernatural. I cannot accept chaos...
...skirmishes, nothing to scare him from his plans to expand RCA into new territory. He is already itching to put RCA into the electric-appliance business, NBC into the movie business (to make films for television), and is planning a "pay-as-you-hear" TV system which would not depend on telephones as does Zenith Radio Corp.'s system (TIME, June 4). Above all, he is confident that the vast sums he has poured into research will continue to pay off with more spectacular advances than even his color television tube...
...sales. With 2.5 million members on their rolls, the clubs say that they have created a brand-new reading public. Says Book-of-the-Month's Scherman: "The retail bookstore-as a method of distribution in the U.S.-does not begin to do a thorough job." The clubs depend on the nation's 41,000 post offices for distribution, mail most of their books to towns under 100,000, which have few bookstores. Many a publisher reckons that book club and other reprint rights and sales to Hollywood are the only things that keep him in business...
Arthur Krock, 64, who was right-hand man to New York World Publisher Joseph Pulitzer before going to Washington in 1932 to boss the New York Times bureau, the capital's biggest newspaper bureau (23 staffers). Krock almost never attends press conferences, prefers to depend instead on his personal contacts and his staffers' legs. As Washington's No. 1 correspondent, Krock's advice is often sought by Washington brass-from the President down. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes and two exclusive presidential interviews (Franklin Roosevelt in 1937, Harry Truman in 1950). Like all Timesmen, Krock...