Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone on the ground falsified a weather report. Yet the board concludes that Cap tain Norris and his passengers are dead because of his error! Captain Norris' only errors seem to have been believing that a federally licensed mechanic would fix a compass and/or an altimeter, that a person on the ground would tell him the truth about a serious matter, and that his fellow man would give him decent treatment after he met his mountain...
Last week Johnson refused to accept jurisdiction. Ruled the judge: "There is no immunity conferred by our Constitution and laws of the United States to those individuals who insist upon practicing civil disobedience under the guise of demonstrating or protesting for 'civil rights.' The philosophy that a person may-if his cause is labeled 'civil rights' or 'states' rights'-determine for himself what laws and court decisions are morally right or wrong and either obey or refuse to obey them according to his own determination, is a philosophy that is foreign...
...face and whose mind is known to this country and to most of the entire world," said President Johnson as he announced the appointment of a new director of the Voice of America last week. And indeed, NBC-TV's John Chancellor at 38 is the best-known person ever to be put in the post-as well as the first working newsman...
...interest in this show, three additional performances have been announced to supplement those originally scheduled: August 12, 19, and 26 at 8 p.m. Since I discussed this production at great length in these pages two years ago, it seemed worthwhile this time around to request an evaluation from a person who has himself played the role of Lear. Harold R. Scott '57, an award-winning actor well known in New York and abroad, played Lear professionally to high acclaim at the age of 22--thus following the lead of Britain's famed William Devlin, who first played the role...
...smell being developed by researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology. As they see it, men should be able to smell as well as dogs-that is, tell people apart by each individual's distinct chemical signature. So far, the researchers have found that human odors can characterize a person's age, sex, race, diet, health and general area of residence. Though still highly experimental, telltale smells could become an important tool. Under contract to the Federal Aviation Agency, the Illinois team is now working on a machine to sniff out bombs on airplanes...