Word: minds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only eight months after his election to eight more years on the bench, Michigan's Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker, more widely known as best-selling Novelist Robert Trover (Anatomy of a Murder), made up his mind. He will soon resign from the court. "I must either leave the court or abandon writing," explained he. "And I feel the latter course a psychological impossibility [for] a writer who finds himself increasingly immersed in characters taking shape in his mind." To critics of his decision (notably Republican legislators in Lansing) the judge countered with a blunt opinion: "While other...
...Professor Vasily S. Emelyanov, chief of the Soviet Administration for Peaceful Utilization of Atomic Energy, they visited laboratories from California to Long Island, uranium mines, nuclear-power reactors and the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, now under construction at Camden, N.J. The prime matter on Emelyanov's mind seemed to be peaceful atomic cooperation between Russia and the U.S. The two nations are now engaged, he said, in a "football game" of senseless competition, but they would get ahead faster if they built only one example of each expensive piece of apparatus (e.g., cyclotrons) and used it jointly. Last week...
...them are still wet, the pictures in Appel's latest Amsterdam show hang high out of reach of inquiring fingers. To demonstrate their wetness last week, the museum curator, who admires the artist, thrust one thumb into an inch-thick gob of red. "Appel doesn't mind," he reassured his visitor, smiling...
...This "belief-system, framework of values, ideology, call it what you will," said Huxley, will have "no need or room for the supernatural." It will be evolutionary, because "the earth was not created, it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body...
Running this cook's colossus is a job for a man with tried and tested ingredients. The man: Charles Greenough Mortimer, 59, the solidly packaged (5 ft. 10 in., 195 lbs.) chairman and chief executive officer of General Foods. The ingredients: a mind as restless as a bubbling stew, a big pinch of Madison Avenue savvy, a full measure of shrewd selling experience. All this is mixed with an insatiable curiosity about the U.S. woman-what food she buys, what she would like to buy, and how it can be made easier to serve...