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Died. Dr. Ralph Waldo Gerard, 73, a University of California neurophysiologist who challenged in the 1950s the Freudian theory that schizophrenia results from adverse cultural and psychological conditions and posited that faulty body chemistry was the probable cause; following heart surgery; in Newport Beach, Calif...
...Shklovskii, Sagan wrote Intelligent Life in the Universe, a recent book that presents the classic argument for the existence of life elsewhere in the universe. As the current director of planetary studies at Cornell, Sagan happily creates scientific scenarios in terms of possibility, rather than strict probability. (The late Gerard Kuiper [TIME, Jan. 7], for years director of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, once remarked: "Carl doesn't want to be confused by the facts...
HAPPY NEW YEAR (directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Francoise Fabian, Charles Gerard and Lino Ventura) is so much gauzy enchantment that it takes some extra deep breathers to come down once you've hit the street. The movie could fill the prescription of the most diehard dream factory devotee--romance and a robbery heist, suspense and soft-boiled humor, a 'sensitive' style that cloaks everything in a nimbus of mist. It's the very best kind of make-out movie, all promises. And if you're not up for a few hours of huggy-wug and kissy-bear--though...
...Died. Gerard Peter Kuiper, 68, astronomer and director of the unmanned Ranger lunar photographic missions that helped pinpoint landing sites for the Apollo moon shots; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. As a director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, he made a number of important discoveries, including satellites of both Uranus (1948) and Neptune (1949). When, in the early 1960s, other scientists were concerned that a spacecraft landing on the moon would sink in an ocean of dust, Kuiper correctly described the lunar surface as resembling "crunchy snow...
...fall to drink and mingle under wooden beams, amid ankle-deep carpets and expensive French prints. Soft rock music wafted round a small jungle of indoor plants as guests explored color-coordinated treatment rooms and dental equipment discreetly hidden away in wooden cabinets. The idea, explained mod-garbed Dentists Gerard Frankel and Richard Winograde, was to create a soothing atmosphere for fearful patients...