Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dogs, cats, monkeys and rats may be sent up in space vehicles with no hope of safe return. But in the Western world, at least, a human sent into space must have a reasonable chance to get back in fair condition. At the Air Force's invitation, scientists gathered last week in San Antonio for the second international symposium on space problems, and took a hard look at that "reasonable chance...
...City last week to hear a good word from a minister. The Rev. John Fuller Mangrum, 36, of St. Edward's Episcopal Church in Mount Dora, Fla., told the ninth annual convention of the National Licensed Beverage Association that they should not tolerate being treated as "second-class human beings" by churches in the grip of "puritanism...
...being nimble, Jacques being quick. But it is something very like charm that most enhances what is good in the show and cushions what is not. It is what lends lure to Robert Dhery's unbrilliant compere patter, appealingness to Pierre Olaf's pranks. It adds something human and wistful to the calisthenic comedy of the high point of the evening. This first-act finale, in which four monks make jubilant Maypole madness of four bell ropes, becomes-even as it is being laughed over-one of the tell-the-grandchildren stage memories of a lifetime...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The So-Called Human Race, a walleyed, satirical look at psychiatry by George Panetta, whose credentials include an off-Broadway comedy called Comic Strip that nail-tough Critic Walter Kerr dismissed as "perfect...
...Soviet Union last summer, Billington noted that one of the chief aims of leading scientists and technicians "is to get rid of the dreary, somber, Moscovite style of architecture." This is not a mere detail, he explained, but the only way "they can assert the value of human considerations...