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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aye, for three snelly days the poor thiggin gaes stravagin' about Argyll wi' the King's men rairin' at his duff, all the whyles hummin' an' hankerin' at ilka Scottish hizzie that leuks as if she griens a kiutle. Hoch aye, what a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Blype o' Clishmaclaver | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Instead of cylinders and pistons, the Wankel engine has a single combustion chamber shaped like a fat-waisted figure eight (see diagram). Inside, it is a three-cornered rotor with curved sides. A shaft passes through the rotor and makes it move on an eccentric orbit by means of two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Power Without Pistons | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

The Dental Hospital has 16 individual "operatories," ten general, and six specially equipped for more difficult surgery. There are dozens of the latest high-speed drills (up to 300,000 r.p.m.), a $40,000 anesthesia setup; such safeguards as visible-image electrocardioscopes, audible heart-tone monitors, pacemakers, defrbrillators and resuscitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cavities Unlimited | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

When Pandora opened the box and loosed upon mankind all the evil gifts of the malevolent Greek pantheon, by Hesiod's account "Hope was the only spirit that stayed there . . . and could not fly forth." According to Kansas' famed Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, hope has stayed there, cowering and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope & Psychiatry | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

All too often after major surgery, especially among elderly patients in accident cases, there is truth in the sour jest that the operation was a success but the patient died. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two physicians described a method of treatment that slashed the death rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Accidents & the Elderly | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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