Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee on Science in General Education, the Committee suggested that the goals of a science course for non-scientists were 1) communication of "a knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science, and 2) to give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today...
...question of art, the phenomenon is sad enough. The drabbest epitaph of all is that the show is generally an unrelieved bore. The psychological implications, however, are more unhappy still. This all helps a great deal to understand why an advanced people of intellectual attainment have been known to find themselves hysterically shrieking Sieg Heil! to an enraged psychotic with delusions of grandeur...
Married. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, aging (77) playboy now confined to a wheelchair, English financier once known as "The J. P. Morgan of the Orient" (before World War II he owned a substantial fraction of metropolitan Shanghai, threw some of the wildest parties in Cathay society), scion of a family whose enormous wealth derived from the China trade (including opium in the old days), prominent figure in English turf circles, cousin of Poet-Novelist Siegfried Sassoon; and Evelyn Barnes, 39, his blonde nurse-companion; both for the first time; in Nassau...
Died. Alfred di Lelio, 77, Rome restaurateur known as "the King of Fettuccine," who-under a spotlight, with house lights dark and violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine...
...auto buyer can have anything but a few top models. Everybody is getting into the merchandising act, moving up, down, and all around to tap a foreign-car import market that is expected to top 500,000 units this year. Even England's staid old Daimler, best known for the limousines it builds for Britain's royal family, introduced a car specially designed for the U.S. market: a sleek, two-seater Daimler Dart sports car with speeds up to 123 m.p.h. and gas mileage of better than 30 miles per gal. On sale in the U.S. next year...