Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McElroy jumped the Army's Jupiter C into the satellite race as a backstop...
Reverse Curves. At the Hospital for Special Surgery, doctors took X rays. The curvature, when looked at from behind, appeared like a reversed letter C; for no known reason most such curves are in this direction. Because it was a single curve it was certain to be deforming-many scoliosis cases have two curves, one right and one left like a letter S, which cancel each other out and leave a good balance, with no worse effect than a shortening of the trunk. And Margie's case was severe. Special Surgery doctors grade cases by a technique developed...
Comparable operations are performed at other U.S. orthopedic centers. Los Angeles' Dr. Joseph C. Risser, though he pioneered the turnbuckle cast, has abandoned it in favor of a smaller, lighter cast, through which he operates after only one week. Patients, home after two weeks, can run and play while wearing the cast for only six months. Dr. Risser also favors operating in some cases that other orthopedists would leave alone. For Margie Bilotti, now 13½ and intent on an acting career, there was never any doubt about the operation's necessity. Like most of the "scolio club...
...Merrill Lynch Co. Co-Founder Edmund C. Lynch died in 1938; Partners Edward A. Pierce, 82, and Charles Erasmus Fenner, 82, are still in the firm...
With considerable pride but without great fanfare, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last month announced the acquisition of the famed Belgian Merode triptych. The Annunciation. By last week the Met's purchase of the altarpiece had become an international cause célébre. Said a resolution signed by 22 of Belgium's top museum directors and art teachers: "Often in the course of its history Belgium has had to witness, powerless, the destruction or pillage of its artistic patrimony. Once more, and this time without being able to cite the accident...