Word: herman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thinking about nuclear war is like looking straight into the sun: it is beyond worldly experience, and it hurts your eyes. You need the mental equivalent of smoked glass. Herman Kahn's latest book, On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios, offers some of this equipment: metaphors, fables, models, and analogies to look at the possible extremes of war and their implications for what used to be "peaceful" aspects of international affairs...
...there's life," somebody noted, "there's Swope." His eye was sharp, and his sense of moral outrage came easily to the boil. He was soon tapped by Joseph Pulitzer's crusading, spirited World. Fascinated by crime, he helped investigate and solve the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthai; even more fascinated by politics, he sailed for Europe in 1916 to cover Germany's side of the war, won the first Pulitzer Prize for reporting. In 1920 Swope was installed as the World's executive editor, and during eight succeeding years he made the World...
...that doctors tend to have a high degree of thanatophobia (fear of death). To them death is the enemy and its victory a personal defeat from which they naturally turn away. In addition, indications are that many doctors had above-average anxiety about death in their childhood, and Dr. Herman Feifel, psychologist at the Los Angeles Veterans Clinic, speculates that this is why they became doctors in the first place...
What's Right? Los Angeles Lawyer Herman F. Selvin, representing the American Civil Liberties Union, argued in the affirmative. "The right to acquire a home historically has been considered as basic to life as the right to acquire food," declared Selvin. Nonetheless, he said, California has erected "a shield for racial discrimination" by denying court relief for Negroes when they seek to buy a house in a generally white neighborhood...
Died. Paul Herman Müller, 66, Swiss chemist and 1948 Nobel Prizewinner for medicine, who in 1939 concocted something he called dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, later known as DDT, which by killing all manner of disease-carrying pests has proved to be one of the greatest health-saving agents yet developed by man; of a stroke; in Basel, Switzerland...