Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your interesting list of 50 unknown but good colleges [Dec. 5] did not include the one that stood next to Kalamazoo which was mentioned as having 3.67% of its male graduates taking Ph.D.s in chemistry and biochemistry. We find that King College had 3.60% of its male graduates taking this degree. When an institution as poor as this one stands fourth in the nation in comparison with Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Reed, Haverford, and Swarthmore, one is bound to call this an indication that our program is not wholly unsuccessful...
...salvagers had found "evidences that some of the men had lived for consider able periods and finally succumbed due to lack of oxygen." The three seamen, names unknown, had been trapped in a storeroom in the forward section of the ship, starboard side. With all power destroyed, they had no way to communicate with the world outside, to let anyone know they were still alive. They had access to fresh water and emergency rations, and they kept alive while the oxygen lasted. They had a calendar, and as each long day passed, bringing no help or hope of help...
...psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical disease entity. Clearly, hypnosis appears to draw on some unknown and, as yet, untapped reserve which acts as powerfully as any drug known, but with none of the disadvantages of drug administration...
...most of the general public--assumed that the purpose of the evening was to attract sizeable audiences and promote discussion of the program and the ideas that from it. The speakers selected for seminars, while generally quite articulate and well-versed in their , were for the most part unknown to the general public. This imposed an almost insurmountable problem publicity, which was never successfully solved...
Hidden Feud. With a novelist's relish, Insider Snow then described one of the unknown battles of wartime Britain: the feud between Sir Henry Tizard (rhymes with lizard), "the best scientific mind that in England has ever applied itself to war," and German-raised F. A. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), right-hand science adviser to Winston Churchill. As Snow tells it, the fate of England all but hung on the enmity between these two strong...