Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survey revealing that among adults, 59% of the nation's poor knew little of the Boy Scouts; often they had never even heard of the organization. Among Negroes, the percentage was 64%. "What we have to do," says National Council (and IBM) President Thomas J. Watson Jr., "is adjust without changing fundamental Scouting aims." To Pittsburgh-bred Joseph A. Brunton Jr., 63, chief Scout executive for six years, this means developing "skills and muscle" necessary for expanding into untapped neighborhoods...
...ends of the strip still attached to provide a blood supply. The loose part of the strip is rolled around the cadaver bone and sutured in place. After almost a month in the hospital, the patient is sent home for about three months to see whether his system can adjust to the presence of the foreign tissue. He takes with him a metal clamp that he uses periodically to shut off the blood supply from one end of the finger roll. Once the implanted finger becomes adjusted to a one-way blood supply, the patient goes back to the hospital...
...information gathered from he interviews will be used not only to encourage greater defection but also to help defectors adjust to South-Vietnamese life. "Having a full picture of the defector, we should de able to help create conditions that will make his reintegration into village life easier," Knight said...
...More Slipping. Showers are too small; they should be larger, have a built-in seat, and be enclosed to the ceiling except for the entrance. Different-shaped handles, square for hot and round for cold, would permit the soapy-eyed bather to adjust water temperature without alternately scalding or freezing himself. To avoid slipping while balancing on one leg, a continuous wraparound safety bar is needed. "One can get a car washed automatically in five minutes, while it still takes us 15 minutes to wash ourselves by hand," Kira notes wryly, and predicts that sweeping technological changes...
...with a pill and a prayer for the morrow. Not Nicklaus, the perfectionist. What, exactly, was wrong on those two missed putts? He got his answer studying a TV rerun. "I had my eyes outside the ball," he said. It took a few minutes of intense practice to adjust his stance-a matter of about one-half inch. Beaming broadly, he strode onto the first tee for next day's play-off and slammed his opening drive...