Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taught more pilots to fly than anybody else in history is Edwin Albert Link. Since 1929, Link has made and sold 4,500 trainers (i.e., simulators for flying, bombing, navigation) on which more than 2,000,000 pilots and other airmen have learned the feel of flying while still on the ground. Last week, at United Air Lines' Denver flight school, Link put into service his latest and most costly commercial trainer, a $1 million electronic marvel that includes a full cockpit with all the controls and dials of a Douglas DC-8 jet airliner. On it. United will...
...months ago Chemist Glenn Seaborg talked warmly of the compensations of his calling: "Stable employment, reasonably good pay, and considerably less pressure and worry than many other groups-such as educators." Sometime in August, Seaborg, who won a Nobel Prize with Physicist Edwin McMillan for discovering plutonium (the pair also discovered berkelium, californium, four other elements), will leave his post as associate director of the University of California's Radiation Lab at Berkeley to become a fulltime educator. New job: chancellor of the university's Berkeley campus (18,981 students), replacing Clark Kerr, now president of the university...
...solid ranking among the top schools in the U.S., Berkeley is the biggest and juiciest chunk of the California orange. Berkeley's trees have had time to grow, and its faculty, mature and luminous, includes six Nobel laureates (among them: Radiation Laboratory Physicists Ernest Lawrence and Edwin McMillan, Chemist Glenn Seaborg). Partisans compare Berkeley, not always defensively, with Harvard, fairly assess their school as stronger in the physical sciences, less impressive in the humanities...
Died. Eyvind Laholm (real name: Edwin Johnson), 64, Wisconsin-born operatic tenor who sang in Europe for 14 years before making his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1939, was once Adolf Hitler's favorite singer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
National Council President Edwin T. Dahlberg of St. Louis reported wide support for a "trial balloon" proposal he had launched in the council's magazine for an interfaith "International Geo-Theological Year." Just as the International Geophysical Year is studying the physical nature of the universe, said Dr. Dahlberg, an International Geo-Theological Year might study "the relation of the human soul to the cosmic order." Scientists, philosophers and theologians of all faiths should be invited to exchange views on such questions as: C| "Do we live and move and have our being in God, or simply...