Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both records at the time. In the early days of the space program, Armstrong had no desire to become an astronaut. Says a close acquaintance: "He thought those guys were playing around with a lot of marbles." After the "marbles" began lifting other pilots into space, he changed his mind and in 1962 became one of the second group of astronauts to be chosen. As a civilian, he is paid more than any other astronaut ($30,054 a year, v. Aldrin's $22,650 as an Air Force colonel and Collins' $20,400 as an Air Force lieutenant colonel...
...washcloth carried in a plastic bag (to prevent evaporation) is great for protection against tear gas. "Vaseline can be used against Mace," says the guide, "but it compounds the damage from CS gas. Make up your own mind about this...
Through the cerebrospinal nervous system, the mind is able to dominate much of the body: how a man walks, talks, or wiggles his fingers is controllable by reason and will. But the body's glandular and visceral processes-run with sovereign independence by what scientists call the autonomic nervous system-have long been considered beyond the reach of conscious control. The only exceptions, it was thought, were bizarre and inexplicable cases, such as the Indian yogis, who can regulate their heart beat and their breathing. Now, though, experimental psychologists have proved that the body's autonomic system...
Internal Vocabulary . The results of such experiments tend to support the the ory of mind over matter, so long ridiculed by modern science. "People are re-examining old concepts like mind-body dualism," says Dr. Bernard Engel of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Baltimore...
...hardly seems to miss Howdy Doody, Fulton J. Sheen, Milton Berle or Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. But then there is Dave Garroway. Rising out of Chicago in the late 1940s, he blazed the interview show trail with a questing curiosity, melodious baritone voice, quiet manner, and a mind like spun glass-intricate but clear. Plus, of course, thick-rimmed glasses that gave a whole generation of imitators that owlish look. After 1961, when he felt compelled to quit because of his wife's death, he became just a memory. Yet even today, when a videophile hears...