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Word: giftedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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So suggests Manhattan Psychologist Victor Goertzel, president of the National Association for Gifted Children. By studying the lives of 350 well-known people, Goertzel, 46, is trying to discover what kind of families breed the species. From the first 77 cases-he is methodically working through the alphabet-Psychologist Goertzel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Be Famous | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

Dismayed Enemies. At week's end. De Gaulle had sailed as safely through the political storms as through the rain and hail of Algerian weather-though he had stayed out of Algeria's biggest cities. In Paris, his right-wing opponents in the Assembly were reduced to hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: In the Lions' Den | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Once close friends (and now both dead), Tizard and Lindemann turned to public power after failing to reach the first rank in pure science. They had little else in common. Chemist Tizard, who at times "looked like a highly intelligent and sensitive frog," was the outgoing, very English son of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bring on the Scientists | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

In the tight little world of U.S. science, Caltech's Richard P. Feynman, 42, is almost as famed for far-out humor as for his professional accomplishments. One of the nation's most gifted teachers and researchers in the field of quantum mechanics. Feynman is also one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Feynman Awards | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Rallying to the cry that property values will plummet, Matt heads a neighborhood group to buy the house and keep it out of the Negro's hands. Success proves bitter. Far from being a faceless figure of dread, the would-be purchaser turns out to be Lamar Winter, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Man In | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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