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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golden rule may not apply in outer space. The International Astronautical Congress, which received the Pope's blessing at its meeting in Rome last week, heard Washington Lawyer Andrew G. Haley describe the basis of what he called "metalaw" (a coinage modeled on metaphysics). Doing unto others as we would they do unto us, said Haley, may not work with other "forms of existence." The spacemen of tomorrow may encounter "sapient beings different in kind," which may require that we "do unto others as they would have done unto them. We must treat them as they desire...
...sink this kind of dough into student aid and teachers' salaries. Henry G. Pearson...
...Washington, where primary election voters can jump party lines at will on a single ballot, Democratic candidates rolled up substantially bigger vote totals than Republicans in most statewide races, were led by affable, two-term Senator Warren G. Magnuson, 51, who, although unopposed for renomination, gathered 426,000. This was a resounding 150,000 more than his November opponent, Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie (TIME, Sept. 3), managed to poll in his primary race. Thoroughly drubbed in the Republican gubernatorial primary: Donald W. Eastvold, Washington's ambitious young (36) attorney general, who first gained political fame...
...artist who raised painting to such a pitch of ecstasy that he went mad. The result has been to make Van Gogh one of the most misinterpreted artists in history. In an ambitious Hollywood effort to right the record and explain the inner workings of an artist, M-G-M this week released its version of Van Gogh's life, Lust for Life, based on Irving Stone's high-colored 1934 bestseller...
Intensity & Tragedy. To photograph Van Gogh's original oils, M-G-M sought out the canvases of collectors and museums all around the world, including some of the masterpieces in Moscow's rarely seen collection (see color). Film crews shot on-the-spot takes of the Van Gogh family house in Holland, re-created some of the scenes he painted, retraced his footsteps from the Borinage to Paris and the sun-baked square at Aries...