Word: experimentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visions and other mystical experiences are part of the regular spiritual diet of the 50,000-odd members of the Native American Church, thanks to what they consider a special gift from God: peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee), a small cactus growing in the valley of the Rio Grande. The...
It is Hechinger's notion that the entire progressive period was cynically calculated chaos, begun "consciously and purposely in order to eliminate the power of the old school and undermine the domination of the pre-Revolution intellectuals." U.S. educationists who regarded the Soviet cockroach-hunting interlude as an honest...
When John Convey, a Canadian Department of Mines expert in the field, first heard of the nuclear scheme, he scoffed at it as "something of a Jules Verne story." Now he sees it as "a new type of mining." Indications last week were that the project is progressing. At the...
Dr. Steche has succeeded in directing his bees to sugar water at various angles from the hive and as far as 1,000 yds. away. In an average half-hour experiment, as many as 150 bees understand his wiggled words and take advantage of them.
THE most dynamic spokesman and "lobbyist" for Washington the nation's troubled railroads is James Miller Symes, 61, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation's largest (1958 revenue $844,200,000). Husky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 lbs.), highballing Jim Symes was the driving force behind the...