Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enlistment problem in our armed forces will never be found by consulting know-nothings like ex-Secretary of the Air Force Symington, Ralph J. Cordiner, or any other top-drawer official in the U.S. The real answer is not money but a recognition of the enlisted man as a human being...
...series of Air Force experiments designed to test human reaction to stratospheric flight (as in rocketcraft or manned satellites), Air Force Captain Joe W. Kittinger Jr. this week soared in a balloon over South St. Paul to a new manned balloon altitude record: 18 miles (96,000 ft.), besting the old Navy-made mark, set last November, by almost four miles...
...answer from Paul. Later that year, for no given reason, she was released from prison. Months afterward she received a secretly relayed message from Paul. He had been taken to another prison and had no hope of freedom. But then, as he had reached "the limit of human endurance," the incredible happened. Russia's Bulganin and Khrushchev, planning to visit Britain and not wishing to be embarrassed by British labor leaders' demands for the release of a long list of jailed Social Democrats, ordered Ignotus, among others, set free. Paul and Florence met for the first time...
From Essence to Existence. "I am an existentialist," Tillich is fond of telling people, and he writes: "Immanuel Kant once said that mathematics is the good luck of human reason. In the same way, one could say that existentialism is the good luck of Christian theology. It has helped to rediscover the classical Christian interpretation of human existence...
...special post (held by some half dozen others) enabling Tillich to work on "the frontiers of human knowledge" without limitation as to schools or departments...