Word: combs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bent; her hips were bent and frozen. Last year, aged 25, Angelina was taken to the arthritis clinic at Manhattan's superbly equipped Hospital for Special Surgery. There she scored near zero on the ADL (activities of daily living) test: she could not walk, dress or feed herself, comb her hair, or go to the bathroom alone...
Last week Angelina was taking hesitant steps on her crutches. With a special long-handled comb she could do her own hair; with a tonglike device she pulled on her socks, and she scored a notable ADL victory when she worked a slip over her head. With a hand sewing machine (the exercise of working it is good for her), Angelina can almost be selfsupporting...
...busiest men in West Germany last week were Egyptians. It was their job, in a desperate response to calls for help from Cairo, to comb the Kiel Canal and other German waterways in search of pilots skillful and experienced enough to guide a ship through the Suez. For the one thing Colonel Nasser cannot do without, if he is to run the canal successfully, is pilots. Any day now all but a handful of the pilots needed to keep boats moving may leave their jobs. If they do, and traffic piles up, a new and crucial phase of the Suez...
...cost of research is not the only obstacle. Many industries are cramped by the shortage of scientists. Company interviewing teams comb through the new crop of graduating students each year, and educators complain that only the rejects will be left to teach. Moreover, many potential research men shy away from science because the starting pay in industry ($700 a month for a Ph.D...
...extravaganza, Forbidden Planet (TIME, April 9). Composed and recorded by Manhattan's husband-and-wife team, Louis and Bebe Barron, it could hardly sound more appropriate. Its basic elements are a kind of trickling-water sound; a zipping effect, as if somebody were running his thumbnail along a comb; a high, ominous thrumming, something like the sound telegraph wires make when the pole is struck; a frightful, featureless roaring; and an effect that repeatedly swoops up to a point of release and then breaks and starts over...