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...from Boston. As a division of psychiatry, crisis intervention developed in part from a study in Boston that followed the tragic Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942, in which 492 died. Interested in emotional response to bereavement, a Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Lindemann, questioned relatives of the dead. He found that the human capacity to cope with problems, which is not innate but gained through experience, often falters in a time of crisis, like the sudden loss of a loved...
...later gave an amended account of the events. When it became apparent that the game would run late, NBC TV President Don Durgin and Sports Vice President Carl Lindemann, both watching the telecast at home in the New York City suburbs, conferred by telephone. Lindemann then called the home of the game's operations manager -whose name NBC insists is a "deep dark secret"-and informed him of the decision to stay with the game until its conclusion...
...determining melting points of iron (and all other substances that increase in volume as they melt), scientists have long used Lindemann's Law, a complicated mathematical formula describing the relationship between the melting temperature of a substance and the pressure upon it. But Geologist Kennedy was disturbed by the widely varying and apparently inaccurate results obtained when the law was applied at higher pressures. He decided that something was wrong...
After writing a simple formula to ex press this relationship, Kennedy applied it first to a determination of the temper ature in the earth's core -until now calculated by extrapolation of Lindemann's Law to be 13,500° F. Instead of the estimated pressure at the earth's inner core (3,000,000 atmospheres), he used the experimentally derived density of iron at this pressure -about twice its density at sea level. Putting that figure into his formula, he arrived at a new and more realistic estimate of the heat in the earth...
...unit assigned to pinpoint and destroy Germany's V-1 buzz-bomb and V-2 rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill's scientific adviser, Professor F. A. Lindemann (Trevor Howard). "It's a balloon," he remarks, peering through his pipe smoke at photographs of the Peenemünde launching site. And: "If it were a rocket, it could never get off the ground...