Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts had just pronounced the Salk anti-polio vaccine both safe and effective. Three years ago, University of California Psychologist Robert M. Gottsdanker was delighted when he succeeded in getting one of the first shots for daughter Anne Elizabeth," 5. Equally happy was Engineer Charles Phipps of Monrovia (near Los Angeles), who got a shot for his son James Randall, 15 months...
...addition to the lecture series, Lindsley, a University of California psychologist, will teach a graduate seminar this fall. Known for his analysis of brain waves with electro-encephalograms, he is engaged in research on epilepsy...
...space flight may be to make the crew unconscious, suggested Dr. John Lyman, U.C.L.A. associate professor of engineering and psychology. For most of the flight, he said, spacemen could be knocked out by drugs or low temperatures. They could be fed intravenously. To solve some of the same problems, Psychologist Donald Michael said that withdrawn personalities like schizophrenics or hermits might make fine spacemen, provided that they had the motivation to do their jobs. Eskimos or Buddhist monks might be good, too, because they come from "more sedentary, less timebound cultures than...
...their cook. About once a week they talked by radiotelephone to their families. Occasionally, some of them got tired of hearing certain hi-fi records, took to hiding them around the camp (one victim: twangy Ballad Singer-Guitarist Burl Ives). But the men balked only once-when a stateside psychologist sent down a lengthy questionnaire probing each man's attitude toward the others. On unanimous demand, the camp doctor tore up the questions...
Most delicate problem for the money-making Lassie team came when 71-year-old Actor George Cleveland (Gramps) died of a heart attack shortly before he was to be script-spirited away to the hospital with a broken hip. After consulting a child psychologist, Producer Robert Maxwell decided to have Gramps die onscreen of the infirmities of old age. At first the notion raised suspicion in Sponsor Campbell's Soup, which balked at the idea of a TV death based on life, came around only after Maxwell promised to expunge from the script specific references to death or dying...