Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dated a Negro, and the parents of another girl turned her over to juvenile police as "ungovernable." Even parents who consider themselves liberals are likely to quail. "My mother is a typical American clandestine bigot," says a New York girl whose family brought her up to be color blind-until she brought home her black suitor...
Into the Laundromat. One prize patient is an electrician who had been declared legally blind as a result of his uremia; after six weeks of intensive dialysis sessions, eight hours at a stretch, he regained his sight and is now back at work. In addition, there are clerks and watchmen, housewives (including a Negro mother of ten), salesmen, accountants, and a society photographer...
...open-heart surgery. While glucose was being administered to The Bronx woman, the bottle ran dry. As a result, air bubbles were fed into her bloodstream, causing her heart to stop. Doctors revived the seemingly lifeless patient after a minute and a half, but she was left almost totally blind and suffered a severe speech impairment. After eight years, her suit against the city finally got to court; after three days of trial, Miss Triano, 33, accepted a $250,000 out-of-court settlement...
N.H.I, research is "double-blind," meaning that those who are conducting the test let neither doctors nor the randomly selected patients know who is receiving the active drug until the conclusion of the tests.* All four drugs are already known to be effective in cutting down blood levels of cholesterol; the all-important question, still unanswerable, is whether this will protect the arteries, so as to prevent coronary occlusions and premature death, without causing serious side effects...
...double-blind requirement results in omission of a fifth important and promising drug, cholestyramine or Questran (TIME, Oct. 13). Because this is bulky and must be taken in liquid form, it cannot readily be paired with a placebo...