Word: cardiogram
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...themselves on the basis of national norms: the entire student body's average on standardized achievement tests is compared with the U.S. average. Peabody's IBM probes deeper. Within two weeks, each student's answer to each question is compiled and analyzed. Result: a kind of cardiogram of teaching within every subject. For example, if a question involving multiplication with zeros is widely flunked, arithmetic teachers have a specific hole to plug...
...that felled President Eisenhower two months later. But Ike is the living proof that a man can serve as President for years after a heart attack. In spite of his crushing work load, Johnson is in good health; his heart is completely healed, and he carries a plastic-enclosed cardiogram in his pocket to prove...
Dirt & Deadlines. But up the capital went. In June 1958, Kubitschek spent a weekend in his Palace of the Dawn (called "Niemeyer's cardiogram" by critics because of its leaping concrete pillars-see color). Pinheiro tacked signs marking the completion date on every building; ten-story ministries rose in 45, 36, even 28 days. More than 5,000 miles of road, most of it straight as a pencil, stretched out to São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, and even across the jungle to Belém at the mouth of the Amazon. Morbidly afraid of dark rooms, elevators...
...early treatment for coronary thrombosis is therefore to administer pain-killing drugs and to keep the patient on his back and preferably asleep until the pain of the original seizure has passed, There was some criticism of Presidential Physician Major General Howard Snyder ast week for not taking a cardiogram un til eleven hours after the attack and for giving no drugs except morphine at first...
...Snyder himself had not been informed of the President's true condition until General Snyder telephoned him while he was lunching-nearly twelve hours after the attack. At noon-ten hours after the attack-General Snyder called two Army doctors in on consultation, and an hour later a cardiogram confirmed their suspicions. As soon as he learned the true story of the President's ailment, Secretary Snyder called a press conference. 6:05 P.M. General Snyder relayed word that the President was "resting well in the hospital and his condition is good." To a reporter's question...