Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Melbourne, Australia's Johnny Monckton, a 19-year-old carpenter, bettered the world's record for the 100-meter backstroke by .7 sec. with the time of 1:01.5, later led off the Aussies' 440-yd. medley relay team that thrashed home in 4:19.4 to lower the world's record by .6 sec. Meanwhile, sturdy, 14-year-old Chris von Saltza of Saratoga, Calif., swimming in a nearby San Jose pool, set three U.S. records in one astounding afternoon with times of 57.9 sec. for the loo-yd. freestyle...
...equates both with the sun and man's consciousness, as well as with "the will to power, stemming from ego, pride . . . destructive forces to be faced, overcome, transmuted." The powerful, majestic bull she sees as lunar, the great progenitor who nonetheless partakes of the dark unconscious and "the lower material aspects ... to be sacrificed, conquered, outgrown ... so that the positive, creative energies may be released." The reason Theseus had to search out and slay the half-bull, half-human Minotaur in the labyrinth, she suggests, is that the beast represents the "misused powers of the 'bull...
...feel they must go along with the group . . . Even the extremely gifted pupil is told, 'What you need is to go out and play marbles with the other boys.' And we are partly right-he does have to learn to get along, but does he need to lower his interests and his actions to the average? . . . We have taught well the ideas of cooperation. On the other side of the picture, are we developing the individual? Are we putting enough of a premium on the pupils who are different, who are exceptional? Are we developing our geniuses...
CHEAPER AUTO LOANS are expected. As a start, to finance inventories, big lenders have lopped ½% to 1% off loans to dealers: General Motors Acceptance Corp. rates are down to 4½%; C.I.T. Financial Corp.'s to 5½%. Result: dealers' operating costs are lower, and retail buyers may drive harder bargains...
...life school. Young Mr. Keeje, by Stephen Birmingham, 28, and The Subterraneans, by Jack Kerouac, 35, are both sluice-of-life novels, although First Novelist Birmingham explores the parqueted upper depths of the well-heeled while Novelist Kerouac, author of On the Road (TIME, Sept. 16), roams the squalid lower depths of just plain heels. Each book purports to speak for a younger generation that Kerouac has dubbed "beat" and Birmingham, with Fitzgeraldian effulgence, likes to think of as "blazing...