Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club. The project, called SCORE (for Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment), was begun last June in Convair's beige-carpeted board room in San Diego. Gathered there were Convair officials and the Pentagon's Roy Johnson, chief of the new Advanced Research Projects Agency. Subject of the discussion: Sputnik III. Said Johnson: "We've got to get something big up." Replied J. Raymon Dempsey, manager of Convair's Astronautics Division (since named a vice president): "Well, we could put the whole Atlas in orbit...
...sums up the origins and distinctive features of existential psychotherapy. Sales are now around the 12,000 mark and continuing briskly. In September came Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Doubleday; $5), by New York University's Professor William Barrett-the most lucid exposition of the subject yet to appear in English. Between them, these books have sharply increased U.S. interest in existentialism, and especially its use in psychotherapy...
...pose for Da Vinci, and there is no clear record that she became pregnant during the four or five years that Da Vinci worked, on and off, at the portrait. Besides, the remarkably similar smile in another Da Vinci master piece cannot be explained the same way. The subject is John the Baptist...
...with the Nazis over their claim that the state alone should be responsible for youth. During World War II he was a familiar figure at Allied P.W. camps. An authority on the ancient religions of Mithraism and Zoroastrianism, Koenig has written several books, articles and a dictionary on this subject. Said one of his friends last week: "Vienna has gained a cardinal but lost a scholar...
...points. In a 5-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the year-old "Memphis case'' ruling of a lower court, thus allowing gas companies to return to their longtime practice of raising rates while waiting for the Federal Power Commission to approve them-subject to refund if the request is turned down. The Memphis case, which was won by the city of Memphis against the United Gas Pipeline Co., was opposed by the FPC as well as the gas industry. It required companies to get customer approval to collect higher rates while the FPC was investigating...