Word: volker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally launched himself into space, he foresaw, it would be from Florida's midsection. Men with less foresight saw only a forbidding stretch of sand, scrub and fetid marshland that was bypassed even during the land boom of the 1920s. In the 1950s, recalls Space Reporter Al Volker of the Miami News, the space program was so hushed up that the only way to find out that a shot had taken place was to have a Cocoa Beach bartender telephone the news. But in the 1960s the time had come for Verne's idea. With it came...
...medical school of the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Leonard Cronkhite, lecturer on Preventive Medicine; Dr. James P. Dixon, president of Antioch College; Dr. Seymour Kreshover, director of the National Institute of Dental Research; Dr. John B. MacDonald, former president of the University of British Columbia; Dr. Joseph Volker, dean of the Medical Center of the University of Alabama; and Dr. Joseph T. Wearn, retired dean of the medical school at Western Research University...
...times, Director Volker Schlondorff tries all too obviously to point up parallels between the violence of the academy and life in Hitler's Germany -as when Torless rather ponderously testifies at a school-board inquiry into Basini's death that "there is no boundary between a good world and an evil world: they run together and very normal people can spread terror." Otherwise, Young Torless, adapted from the novel by Robert Musil, is a perfect-and perfectly chilling-evocation of the underside of a vanished...