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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still mysterious floor, the ocean is not homogeneous but is a vast, intricate structure of separate and distinct layers, each with its own character and individuality. In some places the layers curl up and mix; in other places they do not. Through the layers mighty rivers stream on largely unknown courses, often flowing in opposite directions close to one another. Exploration of this huge anatomy is just beginning. Realizing ever more clearly that most weather originates over the oceans, meteorologists are studying its mighty motions as the key to the world's climate. A change in the direction...
...their likes and dislikes with those of "high-IQ" students. The creative valued humor first; their opposite numbers ranked "character" first and humor last. What supposedly governs adult success, the researchers decided, is what high-IQ adolescents most value. But creative kids enjoy "the risk and uncertainty of the unknown . . . tend to diverge from stereotyped meanings, to perceive personal success by unconventional standards, to seek out careers that do not conform to what is expected of them." Concluded Getzels and Jackson: "It is no less than a tragedy that in American education at all levels we fail to distinguish between...
Bowdoin College Phyllis C. Weston, mathematics teacher at the Skowhegan (Me.) High School M.S. Citation: "Bowdoin today, in honoring her, honors all teachers, unknown and unsung, of such integrity, ability and dedication...
...suave, savvy Axel Springer (TIME, Nov. 11, 1957), the bold bet on the future was the latest step in a spectacular career. The unknown son of a small Hamburg book publisher, Springer brooded out the war in the parks of Hamburg (a respiratory ailment kept him out of military service), decided that the traditionally dark, hearty brew of German journalism needed a bit of tang and a fleck of foam. He founded his empire in 1946 on the radio weekly Hör zu! (Listen), is now sole owner of three magazines (and one-third owner of two more), ranging...
...memorial to what he had learned from Matisse and left behind. Matisse's arabesque line is there-but subordinated to Carles's attempt to create volume with color alone. His Table Arrangement, quick and sketchy by comparison, records Carles's later flight into an unknown world where images existed only as reference points...