Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge was treason, and the testimony proved fascinating. So nervous that he often mumbled incoherently, the once-glib Subandrio admitted to a secret meeting with Chou En-lai in January of last year, in which the Red Chinese Premier had offered weapons to arm 100,000 Indonesian workers and peasants. He also admitted that he had learned that the Communist coup was in the wind but neglected to tell Sukarno about it. Why? Subandrio assumed that the President already knew. Besides, he confessed, "I have an inferiority complex about telling such things to the President...
...Those guys who make the odds never played baseball," grunted Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer. "Our own pitching isn't so bad either." Oh, no? The Orioles' best pitcher, Steve Barber, spent most of the season on the disabled list with a sore arm and was ineligible for the series. Their top winner, Jim Palmer (record: 15-10), gave up so many home runs (20) that his teammates nicknamed him "Boom-Boom." Baltimore's starters managed to complete only 23 games all season-four fewer than Koufax alone. That provided a lot of work for the Birds...
...scanning pairs of serial photos, the computers can measure heights, prepare charts showing altitude contours, automatically correct for parallax displacements and other distortions. e DRESS FIT. IBM has introduced a com puter system that can, from one original design, cut clothes patterns in different sizes. A moving mechanical arm traces the outline of the master design, then adjusts it for all sizes...
Left-hander Dave McNally (13-6) will be on the mound for the Baltimore Orioles when the World Series opens Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Dodgers will probably pitch Don Drysdale (13-16), resting ace Sandy Koufax's arm for Thursday's game...
...four years since the remarkable surgery on Ev Knowles-who now uses his right hand and arm as if he were naturally left-handed-there have been dozens of similar operations performed. In at least half the cases the surgery failed. Most should never have been tried, argues the A.M.A. "If the patient has one good leg, the other should not be replanted. The chances of neurologic recovery are poor, the handicap of a shortened extremity severe, and the value of a prosthesis great enough that the patient is served best with a good stump and an artificial limb...