Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Is "Assault?" In 1944 a Mississippi moonshiner named Lovander Ladner ambushed two federal revenuers, wounding both with one shotgun blast-or maybe more than one. Convicted of two violations of a federal law prohibiting "assault" on a federal officer, Ladner was sentenced to two ten-year prison terms. After serving one term, he appealed on the ground that he had fired only one shot and was therefore guilty of only one "assault." Overruling lower courts, the Supreme Court found the plea valid. Noting that the same law makes it an offense to "impede" a federal officer, the court asked...
...Baron Viktor von Gebsattel and Karl Jaspers in Germany and Ludwig Binswanger in Switzerland began applying what are now rated as phenomenological and existential principles to psychiatry. The influence spread from these elders to young psychiatrists in training. Binswanger and others named their method Daseinsanalyse, from Heidegger's term for existence, Dasein (translated as "being here and now"). The new approach was not formalized in a new school, designed to supplant earlier "depth psychology" methods, but permeated many of them. Though its greatest acceptance came among eclectics (no particular school), it has been taken up by many Freudians...
With four brand-new schools opened this term, Sarasota is sure it can top any community in the U.S. in school architecture. But for Yankee Hiss, biggest kick was to see truancy drastically cut. Says he proudly: "That's one happy result of decent architecture-the kids actually enjoy going to school...
...last week, with Iviglia's charges supported by court-appointed scientists and "style experts," the court found Dealer Werro guilty of "falsifying labels'' and "forgery in two cases," fined him 5,000 Swiss francs, sentenced him to a one-year conditional jail term. The decision, said Investigator Iviglia. would knock the bottom out of the old-violin market...
...Businessmen no longer run for the storm cellar at the inevitable williwaws of economic life, but continue to plan and expand for the long term...