Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...method of piano pedagogy more modern than Etude appeared in the magazine's wake. Chicago's educational TV channel, WTTW, last week introduced a program of weekly keyboard lessons. On the screen Pianist Carroll H. LeFavor leads two pupils up and down the scales. In 4,000 Illinois homes children follow LeFavor's fingering through the half-hour lessons. Most attractive feature of the lessons, to parents and neighbors: the home course, sold for $1 by a local instrument firm, includes a cardboard keyboard guaranteed to guard against resounding wrong notes...
...series, which has been arranged in cooperation with the World Affairs Council in Boston, will appear over WGBH-TV, Channel 2. "Foreign Aid at the Crossroads" is the controversial subject of the programs...
...managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward VII, completed plans for three days of all-English menus, to the unconcealed horror of gastronomes. Maxim's even arranged to have a young British bull flown across the channel for an old-fashioned Elizabethan barbecue...
...Leaky valves, particularly the aortic. At Georgetown University Hospital, Surgeon Charles Anthony Hufnagel has developed an ingenious solution: into the aortic channel he introduces an additional valve made of plastic, with a floating ball which stops the backflow when the heart relaxes. (Such valves used to tick like a clock inside the patient, are now silent because the ball is covered with silicone rubber.) The gadget does not prevent all backflow but stops enough to keep most patients' hearts from being overloaded...
Crown Prince Faisal, brother of King Saud, arrived today for talks with Nasser on action to keep the Israelis from using the Aqaba Gulf as a channel for high seas commerce. "We accept no bargaining on this point," he told newsmen. "We will fight every effort to decrease the Arabs' sovereignty over their territorial waters...