Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grade law school in 1947, he built it into a thriving, well-financed institution, one of the country's best. Four years later he launched the Legal Center (TIME, April 30, 1951; Sept. 10, 1956), a brilliant idea to give U.S. and foreign lawyers a headquarters for topflight research. Fiery Attorney Storey ("I'm a great believer in the rule of law, not men") will continue as Legal Center president. "I don't know why anybody thinks I'm retiring," he says. "I've got enough work to keep me busy for a long time...
Already approved by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, and used by the U.S. armed forces, the mouth-to-mouth revival method is both the simplest and the oldest known to man. It returns to favor after years of reliance on such awkward physical maneuvers as the Shafer prone-pressure system and the Nielsen back-pressure, arm-lift method. Neither of these gets as much air into a victim's lungs as simply breathing into them after clearing the mouth, throat and windpipe of obstructions. For rescuers who cannot stomach direct contact with a person...
Died. Albert Fisk, 68, pioneer aeronautical engineer who developed the Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s automatic pilot and other flight instruments, gyrocompasses, high-intensity searchlights and ship stabilizers during the course of research that spanned two world wars; of a heart attack; in Tucson, Ariz...
...Girl. David Niven tries some motivational research on Shirley Mac Laine, a Raggedy Antic charmer...
Despite these potholes in the road, the bold adventurers on 128 say that the period of biggest growth is ahead. So many research-based companies were being formed around Boston last week that plans were afoot to build another highway, swinging out beyond 128, to accommodate them. The believers in the Space Highway hold that when the climate produces ideas, growth is sure to follow...