Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on the population explosion seven years ago (TIME, Jan. 11, 1960), we quoted from a United Nations projection which suggested that 600 years hence there will be only one square meter for each person on earth to live on, unless some new means of population control are found. Scientists, our story said, looked ahead to "the still-undiscovered oral contraceptive...
...considered suggestions from and about anybody who could breathe. Probably the only person who could meet all the qualifications we wanted died about 2,000 years ago." Robert Briggs, chairman of the committee which was assigned to choose a new president for the University of Michigan, was exaggerating-but not all that much: finding the right president for a big university today is an arduous, time-consuming task. Last week, after a search that lasted for 13 months, Michigan finally picked as its new head Robben Fleming, 50, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin's main campus at Madison...
...group-therapy approach seems to work simply because it gives dieters a chance to air their problems and share their mutual unhappiness (people who are not fat are known as "civilians"). Says Jean Nidetch: "There's no such thing as a jolly fat person." Adds Jerry Pozner, a Long Island University junior who has reduced from 238 lbs. to 137 lbs.: "People eat because they're lonely. When you come to Weight Watchers, you're not lonely any more...
...Nicholai has a hypothesis to explain his finding. He believes that the extremely intelligent person is liable to develop intellectually at the expense of other aspects of his personality. Such an individual derives all his satisfaction from his intellectual superiority...
Before a company dinner for an important visitor, Mr. Mac will often take three or four hours with a pair of vice presidents deciding whether to serve steak at $5.25 a person or rib roast at $4.75. Then there is the matter of vegetables. Will asparagus be cheaper than brussels sprouts, or will carrots be cheaper still? When it comes to making such decisions, McDonnell's favorite tool is his slide rule. For a Christmas party, he once figured out that twelve ounces of eggnog per person was precisely the right amount to assure conviviality without too much hilarity?...