Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence of large-scale meteorological effects due to seeding." Dr. Spar does not insist that cloud-seeding has no local effects. He is convinced that Project Scud has proved that large-scale weather is not sensitive to man-started chain reactions. Not all meteorologists will accept this conclusion. Vincent Schaefer, developer of Dry Ice cloud-seeding, says that Project Scud proves only that seeding of one type produces no startling results. It does not prove that other efforts would be ineffective His former boss, Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir, asked to participate in Project Scud, but was refused...
After a light lunch-rare filet mignon, peas, fruit compote, tea-Shelley tried once more to sleep. This time, in an earnest effort to relax, she read a few chapters of her favorite book: Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (see RELIGION). Refreshed, Shelley sprinted to the 100-yd. title, and a short half-hour later she won the 400-yd. medley championship as well...
...Norman Vincent (The Power of Positive Thinking) Peale, onetime newspaper reporter on the Findlay, Ohio Morning Republican, and for almost 23 years pastor of Manhattan's Reformed Marble Collegiate Church, has a voice that carries far. What he has to say is heard by millions of people each week-on the air, in a weekly newspaper column, a biweekly magazine article (in Look), his own monthly magazine, pamphlets, books, and about 15 speeches a month (TIME, Nov. 1). Last week Dr. Peale, on a new daily radio program over NBC (10:05-10:15 a.m., E.S.T.), became the first...
...Sisters of Charity: founded by St. Vincent de Paul in France in 1633, they specialize in schools and hospitals, run a leprosarium in Louisiana, and number 8,000 in the U.S., 60,000 throughout the world...
...Lifers." That is the active side of Maryknoll. There is a contemplative side, too. For monasticism has always been a blend of Martha and Mary,* of the temper represented by Vincent de Paul, the great fighter against poverty, and the spirit of Francis of Assisi, who considered it more important to live in poverty than to fight it. From time to time, a Maryknoll sister will disappear from her mission rounds and make her way to a secluded farmhouse close to Maryknoll's main building. That is the Maryknoll cloister, where 18 sisters (there will ultimately be 24) selected...