Word: canalizes
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...first rode into Havana in triumph two years ago, 45,000 Cubans have fled to the U.S. Of these, 2,300 have arrived by what the U.S. Immigration Service officially describes as "unusual transport"-hijacking yachts, diverting passenger planes at gunpoint or jumping off Cuban vessels transiting the Panama Canal. But even U.S. officialdom was prepared to admit last week that "unusual transport" hardly seemed adequate to cover the case of Jesus Rafael Saavedra...
...night snowstorm across a wide Flanders plain as featureless and flat as any Midwestern prairie. He asks directions at a roadside inn where huge transcontinental trucks cluster and the room rocks with the blare of a jukebox and the colored lights and clatter of pinball machines. Even the ancient, canal-veined city of Bruges, whose chimes and carillons sound like "pianos in the sky," has a night face of glaring neon and "pure American" funeral parlors with displays of open, polished coffins...
...means acquiescing to the permanent existence of Israel, which is something that grates their Arab pride. Last week the United Arab Republic's Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Sabry told Cairo's National Assembly that Arabs would resist any "pressures" Kennedy might apply to open the Suez Canal to all ships, including Israel...
...mechanical vibrations in the air at a frequency of 1,000,000 cycles per second. A cone-shaped concentrator mechanically coupled to the crystal intensifies these vibrations and produces a sharply defined beam. The surgeon removes a small portion of the bone behind the ear, acoustically irradiates the exposed canal with the gun's waves. Much as a soprano's high note can shatter a wineglass, the beams shot from the gun are supposed to shake the diseased cell structure and destroy it. In preliminary tests on a group of 22 sufferers treated with the ultrasonic waves...
Physical Effects. Doctors agree with Physicist Knudsen that noise is a hazard to physical health. The most obvious danger: deafness. "The Good Lord in his mercy provided the majestic elephant and the lowly ass with ear flaps that would at least partially close the ear canal," observes Knudsen. "But man, poor creature, was not so favored...