Word: behaviorally
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Grass Roots Sentiment. In Tampa, Fla., Francisco Alvarez was ordered by a court to get rid of his cow as a public nuisance, even though he produced three character witnesses who offered to testify to the cow's good behavior...
...self-confident commanders of the Laotian army and the aggressive young Laotian politicians who call themselves the Committee for the Defense of the National Interest, Phoui's turn to neutralism was weak-kneed behavior. They agreed with Phoui's basic diagnosis, but not with his cure; they favored junta government, openly allied to the West. They had the full support of 52-year-old, Paris-educated King Savang Vatthana, a shy Buddhist who took over the throne only last fall upon the death of his polygamous, bon vivant father (TIME, Nov. 9). Resenting his constitutional position...
Crucial in the theory of relativity is the nature and behavior of light. In the 19th century, the prevailing idea was that light is a wave motion, and therefore needs a medium to travel in, as sound waves travel in air. Since light passes unhindered through vacuums, including the vacuum between the stars and the earth, 19th century scientists were driven to postulate a "luminiferous ether." which filled all space. It offered no resistance to the motions of stars or planets, but carried light waves with perfect efficiency...
Even after a coroner's verdict of accidental death, show business gossip ran on. The overdose of barbiturates that killed Actress Margaret Sullavan (TIME, Jan. 11) fitted too neatly into a pattern of eccentric behavior: departure from a Broadway show because of "ill health," the TV performance canceled at the last moment because she did not "feel up to the part." But last week it was Margaret who released a tragic explanation of her behavior. By leaving her temporal bones (which include the inner and middle ear) to the cause of medical research on deafness, she gave away...
...getting deaf," says famed Ear Surgeon Julius Lempert, to whom Maggie went for help early in 1948, By that time she had lost 40% of the hearing in her left ear, 35% of the hearing in her right. "Deafness," says Dr. Lempert, "was the explanation of her often strange behavior." It made her apprehensive about missing cues, says he. "Consciously or unconsciously, she developed that deep voice in order to hear what she was saying." Combined with her unpredictable tensions, the problems caused by her increasing deafness pushed tired nerves to the painful edge of endurance...