Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unknown Area. The committee's prime finding was already a matter of public knowledge, i.e., the U.S.'s first line of defense is its capacity to retaliate, combined with the ability to intercept and detonate an enemy's guided missiles before they can damage the U.S. proper. But beyond that was a vital area where serious exploration has made little if any inroad in public consciousness. Prime question: What can shelters do to protect people in all-out thermonuclear...
Manhattan Psychologist Ira Progoff, author of The Death and Rebirth of Psychology (TIME, Dec. 24), feels that the insights of depth psychology in The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an unknown English monk around 1375, have made it "alive again with meaning and usefulness" for modern man. To enlarge the book's modern audience, Progoff has "translated" it from vivid, lilting 14th century English-which has made it a favorite treasure-trove of poets, including T. S. Eliot-into clearer, plainer language.* Progoff has also translated many of the book's spiritual precepts into psychological terms...
...censorship. A young pro-Communist lieutenant colonel named Wahab Mocmour, who has recently armed some 1,500 plantation workers, launched a 300-man detachment in a fullscale, all-night attack against the headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of the First Military District. Rebel casualties: 48 killed, an unknown number wounded. The 2nd Regiment lost two dead...
Oldsters among the Fore tribesmen remember few cases of kuru before they grew ''grass belong face" (beards). Thus it seems to have become much commoner in the last generation, is estimated to have killed at least 100 Fore in each recent year. It is unknown elsewhere in New Guinea or in the rest of the world. This has led Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas to suspect a genetic defect, with at least a hereditary tendency to the disease. But NIH pathologists at Bethesda have found widespread nerve cell destruction in brains of six kuru victims, suggesting that the cause...
...Star System. His success was dazzling. For three decades tough, cocksure L. B. Mayer was the most important man in Hollywood. He knew exactly what Americans wanted and he gave it to them, by ballyhooing unknown kids into superglamorous movie stars. He found Robert Taylor at Pomona College and Joan Crawford in a chorus line. His star system, soon copied by his competitors, developed Gilbert, Murray, Gable, Tracy, Garson, Garbo, Powell, Astaire and Turner, clustered them and others in such big-money films as Ben Hur, The Good Earth, Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight. If need be, Mayer could...