Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scientists," says a California physicist, "are this century's version of the explorers of earlier times" And yet, as a nuclear chemist says, "most scientists are rather revoltingly normal in their manners and their way of life." These nine leading lights of U.S. science prove both points by their composite beginnings, their curiosities and their achievements. They also prove why the nation's scientific resources are basically sound and promising...
...into its fourth year, the French counted 45,000 deaths (including 4,920 French military). The FLN has admitted temporary defeat in its campaign of terrorism in Algeria's larger towns-curfews remain, but sandbags and barbed wire are coming down, and life has been slowly returning to normal. But outside the cities, the FLN boasted an organized strength of 100,000 men, and a French army officer conceded FLN was "better armed and better trained than ever before." The reality, as always, was hard to sort out from the claims. Last week the FLN put out a communiqu...
Farnsworth conceives of an academic mental-health plan which can deal with severe ilnesses, but concerns itself more with "the normal student, working against unnecessary handicaps." He suggests that students "alternate activity and rest, without undue concentration on any one aspect of college life...
After that disaster, she broke with her father, stopped playing the piano and started the long process of turning herself into a normal human being. She went to the University of California, fell in love with a fellow student, and at 19 told her father that they were getting married. He flew into a rage, threw them out of the house and shouted at her in the street as she fled: "You lousy little bitch! You'll never play two notes again without...
...paid his debts, loved to stuff himself with pastry and whipped cream, sat delightedly through three showings of King Kong. Hitler, says Putzi contemptuously, was a Muttersöhnchen (mamma's boy) whose impotence may have been caused by syphilis and who resented all those who could enjoy normal sexual relations...