Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief naval architect. J. J. Henry ('35) heads his own top firm, lately designed the naval icebreaker Glacier, and helped develop a fleet of ships to take liquefied gas from Algeria to London and from the Persian Gulf to Tokyo. Several Webb alumni, including John Parkinson ('29), NASA's chief of aerodynamic programs, have switched from designing ships to exploring space...
Supreme Court justice from 1945 to 1958; of Parkinson's disease; in Washington. A nonswearing, one-martini Unitarian, Burton was the middle-roading conciliator between the hotly divided Frankfurter and Black camps; he believed in interpreting, not making, the law, though he became an ardent civil rights advocate, winning headlines in 1950 when he wrote the opinion outlawing Jim Crow dining cars (the Negro table behind the curtain) on Southern railroads, one of the modern court's first major anti-segregation decisions...
...secret ballot to elect one of their number as Presiding Bishop. They took less than an hour to make the choice: the ;Rt. Rev. John Elbridge Hines, 54, fourth bishop of the Diocese of Texas, with headquarters in Houston. Mines succeeds Bishop Arthur Lichtenberger, 64, now so wasted by Parkinson's disease that his farewell address, a stirring summons to renewal, had to be read...
...Presiding Bishop's decision was not all that much of a surprise. Chosen to succeed the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill in 1958, Bishop Lichtenberger, 64, was forced to curtail his speaking activities last spring because of Parkinson's disease. He underwent a hernia operation in September, later fell ill with phlebitis; his letter to the bishops admitted that he had made "little progress" in recovering the control over speech he lost as a result of Parkinson's disease...
Energetic Advocate. Parkinson is an energetic advocate, and he rarely lets consistency intrude on the line of his argument. Whereas in an earlier book, The Evolution of Political Thought, he concluded that "Communism is not a creed of great importance in the history of political thought," he now finds that it "seems destined to give the renascent East its cutting edge." He never reckons with the fact that the East is not an entity but a vast breeding ground of heterogeneous societies. In his own amiable way, in fact, Parkinson often seems like a man trying to stuff a quantity...