Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guided missile, watching the ground by radar, could send a televised radar map to the satellite. A repeater on the satellite could relay the ever-changing map to the missile's launching place. When the target came into view, control officers, watching the relayed map, could send last-minute instructions, by microwave, and steer the missile down on the target's heart...
...hiatus in medical learning became a pressing problem to three surgeons at the University of California Medical School; they had a patient whose swallowing mechanisms had been paralyzed by a gunshot wound. A .38-cal. bullet had hit the man near the nose, injuring some of the nerves that control the muscles of the throat. In Annals of Surgery, Drs. Howard C. Naff-ziger, Cooper Davis and H. Glenn Bell describe how they went about their problem...
...nerves. Then they worked out an operation on the monkeys that allowed them to eat again in comfort. Ready for the real test, the doctors took part of a muscle from the patient's neck and sewed it to his Adam's apple. This muscle normally helps control the tongue. But it worked; the patient could raise his Adam's apple. It was the first such operation, say the three surgeons, that has ever been performed...
...trusts had milked other cor porations, by buying up control and paying out huge dividends. Example: in July 1948, Textron's "Sixty Trust" bought up the stock of the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Co. for $6,825,000, then paid itself $4,500,000 in dividends...
Pitrim Sorokin, professor of Sociology and director of Harvard's "anti-selfishness" research center, George de Santillana, professor of English and History at MIT and an expert on cybernetics, a system that proposes to make greater control of physical mechanisms by man possible, and Henry Aiken, professor of Philosophy will discuss the relation of the Social Sciences to values for the modern man, tomorrow...