Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Princess Josephine Charlotte, 29, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium, and Prince Jean, 36, heir apparent to his mother, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg: twins, their second son and second daughter; in Betzdorf Castle, Luxembourg. Names: Jean Felix Marie Guillaume, Margaretha Antonia Marie Felicite. Weight: each...
...Department of Justice, under Attorney General Tom Clark, there was strong sentiment for the indictment of Chambers; two Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court-Felix Frankfurter and Stanley Reed-testified as character witnesses for Defendant Hiss at the first trial. And many of the leading lights of the Washington press corps made no secret of their liking for Hiss (a longstanding news source at the State Department) and their dislike of phlegmatic, pipe-smoking ex-Communist Chambers...
...difficulty is financial. Institute Director Robert H. Felix gets only $16,500 a year; his clinical director, Dr. Robert A. Cohen, gets $19,000. (Top scientists may get more than their boss.) Either could make two or three times as much in private practice. In junior posts the disproportion is just as great, and there has been a heavy turnover of staff members. Result: no integrated program, no continuity in most research projects...
...made ambitious demands for guarantees of space, facilities and money to continue his experiment in treating schizophrenics "tough." Cohen ordered the six patients in Scher's special project transferred to a state hospital, provoking angry protest from their families. Last week a congressional subcommittee" on appropriations handed Director Felix a set of stiff questions on the conduct of the institute...
...Government is now reviewing the barter system, may curtail or even drop it. While miners would welcome that, they fear an end to stockpiling, which would increase imports and send prices down. Last week, before a meeting of the American Zinc Institute, Assistant Interior Secretary Felix Wormser said frankly that stockpiling, which last year scooped 15% of slab zinc output (an amount almost equaling 1956 imports) off an overloaded market, has met its goals and will end "in a matter of months." The only solution for the miners' troubles, said Robert Hendricks, vice president of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting...