Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked his way from $4-a-week delivery boy's job into top of the law class at Harvard (1906), worked briefly as a junior in a Manhattan law firm, then for assorted Government agencies, returned to teach at Harvard in 1914. Even before Roosevelt's first term, Frankfurter exhorted students to seek public service, after 1932 Frankfurter students-"Happy Hot Dogs" -were spotted throughout federal agencies. F.D.R. finally pushed the Harvard chair away from the reluctant, pince-nezed little (5 ft. 5 in.) professor, put him on the Supreme Court, where his authoritarian, powerful mind, attention...
Despite ability and eloquence, Democratic Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas E. Murray's frequent personality and policy clashes with AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss made his departure from office readily predictable (TIME, May 6). Last week President Eisenhower made official his decision not to reappoint Murray, whose term expires next week. Instead, in an obvious effort to head off Democratic congressional criticism, he nominated onetime (1949-53) Truman Assistant Navy Secretary John F. Floberg, 41, a political independent who has been practicing law in Washington since leaving government. Jack Floberg has one sound credential for AEC service: he played an active...
...authority where it sees fit; 2) in international relations, i.e., the status-of-forces agreement with Japan, the U.S. executive branch has power to waive jurisdiction over overseas G.I.s. At week's end the U.S. Supreme Court decided to delay adjournment (originally slated for this week), extend its term to hear the Girard case early next month...
...eyebrows lifting all around. By 1945 he had established himself at the University of Chicago as professor of psychology and set up a counseling center in a drab, three-story house on Drexel Avenue, half a block west of the campus. To the center trooped clients (Rogers avoids the term "patient") of all ages, from all walks of life. It has been going full blast ever since...
...client: he ends therapy when he feels like it. During most of the center's twelve years, clients have averaged 40 to 50 interviews (at a cost, set largely by themselves, of $5 to $17 a session). Lately Rogers & Co. have been experimenting with short-term treatment: the client is told in advance that he is limited to ten weeks, 20 interviews. First results seem to be as good as from treatments where the clients set the limit...