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...hereby declared "traditional" never to step on the seal embedded in the middle of the main hallway. But such exercises in nostalgia or the manufacture of new traditions do not change the fact of rampant change, which evokes a turn-of-the-century observation from the Tascosa (Texas) Pioneer: "Truly this is a world which has no regard for the established order of things, but knocks them sky west and crooked, and lo, the upstart hath the land and its fatness...
...Aiding Pioneer. Lovell's latest space scoop came only two months after Jodrell Bank successfully intercepted television signals being transmitted from the moon's surface by Luna 9, reproduced them on a newspaper facsimile machine, and immediately released them-a full 24 hours in advance of the Russians (TIME, Feb. 4). Before that, he was first to announce that Luna 2 had hit the moon, and that earlier lunar soft-landing attempts by the Russians had ended in failure. He has also beaten the Russians to the punch in revealing some of the first details of their manned...
Died. Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, 70, pioneer in psychiatric treatment of alcoholics, one of the first in the medical profession to recognize the therapeutic value of Alcoholics Anonymous, who encouraged his patients to break through the "big egos" that liquor gave them and accept their excessive drinking as a disease over which they had no control, thus gain the humility necessary for a cure; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn...
...Paris," recalled the speaker at Washington's Boiling Air Force Base, "I went to buy a ticket on the helicopter service. The girl at the counter asked me to spell my name. 'Oh,' she said, 'you spell it like our helicopter.' " Exactly. Aviation Pioneer Igor Sikorsky, 76, reminisced about the romance and passion of flying at a banquet honoring the father of the helicopter. "My first one was more vibration, dust and noise," he laughed, "and it couldn't fly. But now as an old man and as a designer, I am pleased most...
Walter Gellhorn, a pioneer in administrative law, proposed last night that three federal agencies be organized to handle citizens' complaints of abuses by the government...