Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...age cries out for greatness in the White House. The trouble is not only that so many talented Americans shun politics, but also that no sort of accomplishment in other fields necessarily qualifies a man for the extraordinary demands of the presidency. Solemn reformers will doubtless one day propose a special Presidential Academy with a faculty of hundreds. Enrollment would be for a decade, the curriculum immense and open-ended. With his power over nuclear war or peace, the American President can do no less than strive to be the world's most rational man; a philosophy degree might...
Born in Vilna, Russia, a center of Jewish culture that produced Heifetz, Schneider acquired early experience as a teen-age member of a trio in a local restaurant. The trio occasionally was summoned to play in an upstairs room while a patron made love to a prostitute in full view of the musicians. Undaunted-even by the tip of a bottle of vodka-Schneider sometimes arranged to meet the girl afterward...
...relatively expensive; each reading costs an average of $15 or more. Another reason is that there are too few expert cardiologists to read all the ECGs now taken, let alone the millions more that a truly effective preventive-medicine program would demand. Now, in an application of transistor-age electronics, a compact new machine enables technicians to do the initial screening, and select for the cardiologists' attention only those ECGs that contain warning evidence of abnormalities...
...Space-Age Box. Developed by Thiokol Chemical's Humetrics Division, the device is called ElectroCardioAnalyzer. It is a miniaturized computer as well as a simplified electrocardiograph. By comparing a subject's graph with fixed standards that have been programmed into the machine beforehand, it can detect abnormal electrical activity in the heart. When it -does so, warning lights flash on, and the technician knows that this patient must be referred to the cardiologist...
...subjects an hour. To achieve this simplicity and speed, the machine records only five electrical stimuli per heartbeat, as against the standard machine's 13. These five are sufficient for basic screening. Since what is adjudged normal in an ECG varies with the subject's age, early models of the analyzer were set for use on only the age bracket of the volunteers being tested. Later models may be programmed for several age levels, which the technician can select by a simple dial...