Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people, Raytheon's scientists concluded that a sky station will have to leave the earth under ordinary chemical power and buzz its way up to the spot where the power beams come to a focus. Then its microwave-fueled engine will take over. Test prototypes will carry a human crew, but later models will be automatic. Once they have been maneuvered into the focal spot, they will be kept there by electronic devices which sense when they are beginning to drift out of it. If the supporting beam fails, the station will drift down gently, supported by the autorotation...
Dreadful Poison. Plutonium must be handled as if it were thousands of times more toxic than the deadliest poison, which it is: it is strongly radioactive, and if a microscopic amount of it gets into the human body it causes dreadful damage. Exposed to air, it oxidizes quickly, and the oxide floats off as a deadly, impalpable dust. If it is machined in air, the shavings burst spontaneously into flame, giving off clouds of deadly smoke...
Even when plutonium is stored in a carefully designed container, workers live close to catastrophe. Each small chunk of plutonium must be kept a respectful distance from the others, lest they combine to form the critical mass that sets off an atomic reaction. Even a human body in the wrong place can reflect enough neutrons into a chunk of plutonium to set off a chain reaction that could kill everyone in the lab with a blast of radiation...
Died. Konstantin Mikhailovich Bykov, 73, director of the I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology in Leningrad, who, following the lead of his teacher, Pavlov, rejected Freud as the key to understanding human behavior; in Leningrad...
Small, spry, tough, intense, Kiesler got few commissions for his missionary work and asked for no favors. His credo, stated in the College Art Journal: "The artist must learn only one thing in order to be creative: not to resist himself, but to resist without exception every human, technical, social, economical factor that prevents him from being himself." Recently, a former student of Kiesler, Armand Bartos, asked him to become a partner while remaining strictly Kiesler. Their collaboration resulted first in Manhattan's strange and elegant World House Galleries (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Now ground is being broken...