Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aeronauts who had hived there were mostly grease-stained motorcycle or automobile racers who flew?or tried to fly?out of the sheer love of risking their necks in public. Sikorsky was a young gentleman and an embryo intellectual; his father, a physician, was famed in Russia as a psychologist, and Igor had put in three years at the Imperial Naval College in St. Petersburg, and two more at the Institute of Technology at Kiev. He was not abashed, however, as he walked through the long grass at the edge of Juvisy airfield, outside Paris, and took his first look...
...Hall? It makes you feel petunia."* ¶Amid a cloud of complaints about inflation, the University of Wisconsin found a sliver of a silver lining: diplomas, which cost 55? in 1949, 43?in 1950 and 36? in 1952, have hit a new low-32?. ¶Appointments of the week: Psychologist Nils Y. Wessell, 39. acting president of Tufts College, to succeed Leonard Carmichael as Tufts' full-fledged president; American Historian Owen Meredith Wilson, 44, onetime associate dean of the college at the University of Chicago and since 1952 secretary of the Ford Fund for the Advancement of Education...
...problem drivers referred to his clinic by the courts, Psychologist Canty found 100 certifiably insane. 850 feeble-minded and 1,000 who were former inmates of mental hospitals. Of the rest, he said, many are "psychoneurotic and emotionally unstable, impulsive and irresponsible, or daydreamers preoccupied by financial stress, marital discord or sex problems. [Others are] disturbed by inferiority feelings . . . because of small stature, poor clothing, lack of money, or driving a dilapidated...
...careful driver who rates a fellow motorist as "nuts" for honking his horn as soon as the light changes to green is probably right, though medically inexact. Alan Canty, psychologist for Detroit's traffic court, spelled it out in more technical terms at a National Safety Council meeting in Chicago last week: "The fellow who blasts his horn to bully his way through traffic, the fellow who wants to race you in a traffic-light getaway, and the smart-aleck who defies traffic regulations are selfish . . . and egocentric individuals...
Drugs & Understanding. Bronx-born, California-trained Psychologist Hood, 40, saw the difference between the truly retarded and the salvageable brain-injured when he was hired to handle a class of Chinese "morons" in San Francisco. Most, he found, were not retarded at all, but their natural intelligence could not function normally because of their injuries. After he met Dr. Putnam (who has done as much as any man living to develop the use of drugs which now control epilepsy in two-thirds of its victims), Hood took over an abandoned mansion on West Adams Boulevard and started his special boarding...