Word: maying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 56, mending after lung cancer surgery (TIME, May 11), popped up in Oklahoma City to accept a bronze plaque from the conventioning Air Traffic Control Association. The award was given in salute to Godfrey's frequent airing of problems in the plane-filled skies...
...minutes. This break might have indicated the moment when Lunik III briefly dipped behind the edge of the moon, but the Jodrell Bank scientists could not be sure whether it passed ahead, behind or under the moon. Since the far side of the moon was mostly in sunlight, Lunik may have photographed it, and other instruments may have observed it in other ways. But the Russians did not say whether man's first chance to observe the far side of the moon had been successful...
...small, new member of the earth-moon system, and its big associates can tug at it strongly whenever it gets within range. The effect on its orbit will be greatest whenever Lunik III comes close to the moon, but this will not happen often. Eventually, Lunik may be attracted down to the moon's surface, or perhaps the moon will deflect it into a course that will hit the earth's atmosphere and bring its historic career to a fiery...
Last week Iowa-born Gilbert Dalldorf, 59, won one of the 1959 Albert Lasker Awards ($2,500 plus a gold Winged Victory statuette) for following the White Plains footprints to Coxsackie and beyond, and also for showing that one viral infection may interfere with the development of another. (This may explain why, though Coxsackie and polio often coincide, one usually predominates and few if any patients seem to get both diseases...
Even the vexed and vexing period of adolescence is no exception. "Although the adolescent may rebel," Dr. Kenward said, "he feels much happier and more secure if someone helps to restrain his behavior. It can be comparatively painless if he has grown up with basic trust and a respect for wise authority...