Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, 79, longtime Stanford University psychologist, who developed the widely used Stanford-Binet IQ test in 1916, followed up his work with a 30-year study of 1,400 California schoolchildren with IQs past the threshold of genius (140-plus); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palo Alto, Calif. Tester Terman's findings: his bright children grew up healthier, slightly wealthier and better employed than the average child, but the group contained "no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president . . . gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys ... In achieving eminence, much depends...
...were entirely in good taste-which is open to question-the fact remains that it is dramatically unsound. While Charlton Heston, who plays Moses, and Anne Baxter, the princess, unquestionably make a handsome couple, their embraces shed no light on the problem of how Moses, portrayed as on the threshold of the Egyptian throne, becomes a prophet and the deliverer of an enslaved race. Like the spectacle, the romance only obscures the central problem of the story...
...sprouts patch, 600 yards away. Suddenly he felt his wheels touch down-too soon. Ramming his throttles forward, he tried to climb skyward. At that moment the airport greeters had their first horror-stricken sight of the Vulcan, a monstrous shadow in the mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon ship!" He and Sir Harry, in their ejector seats, shot upward from the aircraft, and their parachutes blossomed in the mist. But for the other four members of the crew, whose only exit was through the plane's underside...
...eccentric specialists give everyone a vicarious feeling of cupidity. Last week promoters of the show tried to lure a bigger audience than ever with newspaper ads to ballyhoo a mysterious "world-famous guest." As the guest walked front and center, the announcer intoned: "Our next guest on the golden threshold of the $64,000 Question is from Suffolk, England: Mr. Randolph Churchill." After wild applause, Master of Ceremonies Hal March moved in: Hal: What do you do for a living...
...does the cloudy white atmosphere of Venus. There is water on Mars - not much, but some. Thin winds carry clouds of several types. The color of the surface changes blotchily with the seasons, as if vegetation were growing. There is a wealth of fine detail just at the threshold of vision, but even the best astronomical instruments have not been able so far to take photographs of it. Some astronomers say they see the famous "canals"; some see streaky, irregular lines; others see little that is definite. They all agree that something complex and interesting exists on Mars, but they...