Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trend in German philosophy by reaffirming the existence of objective truth and of a knowable world, i.e., phenomena. Edith's friends teased her, in rhyme, for thinking only of Husserl while other Austrian girls were dreaming of Busserl (Austrian patois for kiss). At Breslau University and later at Göttingen, she made such a mark with the clarity and precision of her thought that Philosopher Husserl asked her to become his assistant at Freiburg. She soon took her place as an equal beside the city's distinguished philosophers...
...optimistic talk about space travel comes from the engineers who design the rocketships for the future. All they need for a trip to the moon, they say, is sufficient funds ($4 billion) and an all-out engineering effort like the one that produced the Abomb. To British Astronomer J. G. Porter, writing in the scientific monthly Discovery, "some element of doubt creeps in." His engineering brethren, he says, have overlooked some basic difficulties obvious to any stargazer...
Died. Constant Victor André Mornet, 85, Procureur Général of France, prosecutor in the trials of Dutch dancing-girl-turned-spy Mata Hari (1917), Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval (1945); in Nohant-Vic, France. Called by his government to prosecute Pétain, Mornet summed up in a stormy five-hour speech, concluded: "I would not be doing my duty if I did not insist on the capital penalty...
SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM to build 85 new ships, modernize another 189, will trigger a $756 million outlay by the U.S. Government and private industry, says Maritime Administrator Clarence G. Morse. Under the plan, the U.S. will spend $326 million, expects private industry to put in another $430 million...
Robert Ryan bosses a little band of thieves with a nice military precision. He and his men are ex-G.I.s. and they play their game like an army patrol in action...