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Otherwise, Satellite is rocketshipshape with searching dialogue ("You knew the rocket was my job when you married me"), a crisis (the bomb sticks to the ship's hull), an addled scientist (Donald Wolfit), and a final clinch between Reporter Maxwell and craggy-browed Pilot Kieron Moore. After 85 harrowing minutes Satellite makes port, leaving the corn barrier sadly shattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...textbook house, caught on like a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, unexpectedly became a bestseller and made its author's name a national byword. Its successor, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), sold less well. What appealed to the public was precisely what horrified many a scientist: the implication in both books that, despite the small size of the statistical samples (5.300 men and 5,940 women), the studies reflected an accurate cross section of human sexual behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Statistician of Sex | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Moral Symptom. Dr. Kinsey insistently declared that he was a dispassionate scientist. A teacher's son, he majored in biology and zoology at Maine's Bowdoin, went on to take an Sc.D. from Harvard and to join the zoology department of the Indiana University. After he founded his Institute for Sex Research in 1947, Kinsey and a specially trained staff of psychologists, sociologists, lawyers and statisticians launched a kind of super Gallup poll of America's sex life. Some of the results sounded sensational. According to Kinsey's figures, nearly half of the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Statistician of Sex | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Since then, many scientists have wondered if all nature is as balanced between matter and antimatter as the atom is between positive and negative charges. If so, where are all the antiprotons to balance the protons that help make up the known universe? Writing in Science, Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, 45, senior physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, suggests a startling theory. Could it be, asks Scientist Goldhaber, that the missing antiprotons form a whole separate universe of antimatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Anti-Matter Universe? | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 80, explorer, scientist, physician, millionaire socialite (left $5,000,000 in trust by his first wife, the former Eleanor Elkins Widener) and sometime cannibal fighter, who mapped 500,000 sq. mi. of Amazon and Orinoco River territory; at his summer home in Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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