Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never got beyond his freshman midyears-is famous for houses that fly and bathrooms without water, for cars and maps and ways of living bearing the mysterious word "Dymaxion," for things called "octet trusses," "synergetics" and "tensegrity." But he is best known of all for his massive mid-century breakthrough known as the "geodesic dome...
...list of Negro roles is growing, but an even more significant breakthrough, perhaps, has come in television commercials. A Negro shaved with a Gillette razor between innings in the World Series. Rambler ads use Negroes. So do ads for All, Whisk and Oxydol. When a movement in TV reaches the commercials, it can truly be said to have reached the heart of the matter...
...George Guttman Ornstein, 71, chest specialist who, as medical director of Staten Island's Sea View Hospital from 1931 to 1955, tried dozens of drugs for tuberculosis, finally in 1952 directed the testing of two newly-developed isoniazids on 92 seemingly hopeless patients, saved every one, a breakthrough that put the doctor out of a job when Sea View and other TB hospitals closed for lack of patients; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...beginning of a new political epoch is like the breaking of a dam," Schlesinger wrote. "The chaos of the breakthrough offends those who like everything neatly ordered and controlled; but it is likely to be a creative confusion, bringing a ferment of ideas and innovations into the national life. Thus the 60's will probably be spirited, articulate, inventive, incoherent, turbulent, with energy shooting off wildly in all directions...
...that exist in every living cell and control its growth and reproduction. Hopes are high that this science will soon come to a complete understanding of life's basic chemical processes. But for all the activity that was reported at the Hague congress, there has been no important breakthrough. Progress reports were filled with the promise of discoveries yet to come. A sampling...