Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blocks west of the Bernauer Strasse tunnel, where 57 East Berliners crawled to freedom last week, an escape of another sort was taking place. Concocted of cigar smoke and the reek of raw schnapps, a blur of spinning spokes and the beat of a brass band, this form of escape goes by the name of "Sportpalast Fever," and can be indulged in once a year when Berlin holds its famed, phantasmagoric Six-Day Bicycle Race...
Munich last week was going all the way with L.B.J. A Bavarian brass band clad in lederhosen oompahed California, Here I Come while lusty stein clankers wearing campaign hats and Johnson buttons roared out "Prosit!" But in Paris they were shouting for "Goldwater in '64" as Republicans gathered in a mirrored conference room at the Ritz and collected $1,000 in campaign funds at the first passage...
Doctors in Washington last week made surgical history when they slipped an ingenious and incredibly small ultra sound probe inside a patient's eyeball for the first time and located a sliver of brass. Once found, the sliver was instantly removed, and James Cassiday, 11, was assured that he will regain substantial vision in his damaged left...
...Tests. If the object in Jimmy's eye had been of iron or steel, Colonel Passmore could have removed it with relative ease on his first try with an electromagnet. When he found that it was another material - almost certainly brass-all he could do was let the eye heal a little and hope to get at the object later. But there was grave danger that eye fluids would react with the metal and compel removal of the eye. Then Dr. Passmore remembered reading that Dr. Nathaniel Bronson II had begun work in New York on an ultrasound probe...
...that fills most of the eyeball and searched. When the oscilloscope showed that he was within a millimeter of the foreign body, Dr. Bronson closed the minuscule forceps attached to the probe. His aim was perfect. The forceps grasped the object, and Dr. Bronson carefully extracted a sliver of brass, ¼-inch long and 3/16-inch wide. Though the whole operation on Jimmy's eye took an hour and a half, the actual location of the sliver and its removal took only 39 seconds...