Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leon Kirchner, professor of Music, noted that there are a number of composers whose "achievement in music is equal to that of awardees in other fields...
...dark horse team of 1965 is the Cleveland Indians. Long buried in the second division, the Tribe has made several good trades which give them one of the most a wesome lineups in the league: Rockey Colavito hit 34 homers for Kansas City and batted .274. Leon Wagner blasted 31 homers last year. Chico Salmon hit .307 in his rookie season. Chuck Hinton has been the Washington Senators' top player for the past two seasons...
Theologically speaking, faith is a gift of God. But in the cold-eyed view of the trained psychiatrist, religious belief may also be a cover-up for deep inner anxiety and a cause of neurosis. Dr. Leon Salzman, professor of clinical psychiatry at Georgetown University medical school, argues that it is often difficult "to determine where religion ends and disease begins." At the annual meeting in Washington of the Academy of Religion and Mental Health, a number of psychiatrists and clergymen tried to define the tenuous borderline between healthy and neurotic faith...
...electronic computer," says Dr. Louis T. Rader, a vice president of General Electric, "may have a more beneficial potential for the human race than any other invention in history." As viewed by Sir Leon Bagrit, the thoughtful head of Britain's Elliot-Automation, the computer and automation will bring "the greatest change in the whole history of mankind." The public, too, has begun to sense the power of the computer for good and evil. Cartoonists delight in giving computers robotlike stature and minds of their own that like to play tricks on ordinary mortals, and computers have been made...
...installation of computers in some industries has required so many new skills that the total unemployment level has hardly changed. In many cases, the computer has not meant an overall loss of jobs so much as a change in the type of jobs done. Says Sir Leon Bagrit: "Mechanization has sometimes given millions of people subhuman work to do. Automation does the exact opposite...