Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on artificial hearts and Dr. DeBakey was both interesting and informative. In it you make brief reference to the possibility of using a nuclear source to power these devices. The possibility is not so remote as your brief reference would make it seem: the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health will be giving serious consideration to the feasibility of using nuclear power for the complete artificial heart it hopes to have developed...
...long column of black limousines punctuated by thundering motorcycles-struck sonorously past ranks of poplars and blue-legged gendarmes. In village after village, De Gaulle repeated the tried and true routine: a ritual exchange with the awed mayor, a Lyndon-like lunge into the thicket of outstretched hands, a brief utterance from the bunting-draped platform, then the Marseillaise and a hearty "Vive la France...
...announcement said that Astronomer Maarten Schmidt of Caltech had discovered a quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) racing away from earth at 80% of the speed of light. That brief observation last week surely marks a significant milestone in the expanding reach of modern astronomy. Since speed is related to distance, the speed of Schmidt's quasar makes it by far the most distant object ever identified. Even more important, discovering the quasar meant that Dr. Schmidt had refined a delicate technique that will almost certainly find still more distant objects and lead man close to the edge (if there...
...rules will "allow any freshman who believes he has a substantial reason for preferring one House over the others to write the Dean of the College a letter, separate from his room application, announcing and supporting his preference," according to a brief memorandum on the decision released by Deans Ford and Monro...
...ladies and gentlemen, how do you dor), went on to become a $1,300-a-week announcer for network variety shows (the Chesterfield Hour, Major Bowes' Amateur Hour) until 1934, when heavy drinking cost him his job, after which he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, made a brief comeback in network radio, then went into semiretirement as a part-time announcer for local stations near his home; of a stroke; in Hauppauge...