Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuing high quality of Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV's) is the selection process where a staff headed by the psychologist who helped choose the first U.S. Astronauts weighs the background and indicated abilities of each applicant against the list of available assignments...
...more important than intellectual stimulation." While his grandparents will be more than 70 by the time he graduates from high school, "the Bannister home provides Mark with a stable, dependable, conventional, middle-class Middle West background and an opportunity for a college education and profession." In light of Psychologist Hawkes's "warnings of dire consequences," the court said it could not send Mark to "an uncertain future in his father's home. We do not believe we have the moral right to gamble with this child's future...
...upholding that appeal, the Iowa Supreme Court relied heavily on the opinion of Iowa State University Child Psychologist Glenn R. Hawkes, who said he had "spent approximately 25 hours acquiring information about Mark and the Bannisters," but admittedly dug up little or no information about the Painters. According to Hawkes, Bannister has become so established as Mark's "father figure" that the odds are "very high" the boy "will go wrong if he is returned to his father...
gout. True enough, say Biochemist George Brooks and Social Psychologist Ernst Mueller, but the one-word diagnosis is far from complete. Those four famous men, along with many others, suffered from swollen, painful joints be cause their blood carried an excess of uric acid, which is a product of hu man metabolism. And the presence of that excess acid may explain their other basic similarities -their energetic and adventurous minds, their urge to ex cel and the high caliber of their achievement...
Others applaud the new programs as good, if properly handled. Philadelphia County Court Judge Juanita Kidd Stout insists that "good English has no color connotation at all-pride in bad language is foolish." Psychologist Kenneth Clark sees "a great potential" if instruction is presented "in a context of dignity," not condescension-"exactly as French or Russian might be." He considers speech differences "one of the main, if superficial, racial and class irritants," but since "prejudice is made up of such little things, if one or two or three can be taken away, eventually the whole superstructure will fall...