Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quadros flew off to Europe for an opera tion to correct damaged muscles in his left eye. With the operation long since successfully completed, Quadros is still over there - somewhere. The President elect of the world's fifth largest nation has been playing a game of hide-and-seek in Europe, and with his Jan. 31 inauguration date less than a month away, Brazil is clamoring for him to come home...
While to date, Vall's dire prognoses have been almost invariably correct for the two lower echelons, his thoroughbreds -notably Saratoga and Pink Jungle-have all too often turned turkey. Group III, with about 60% profit makers, has actually outperformed Group IV by about 10%-which is why Vail regards a Broadway opening as "the greatest suspense story ever told," and why his handicapping is less than final...
...prose is unvaryingly correct, well cut and sometimes a little oldfashioned...
...coiled structure, believes that "very fundamental discoveries are now possible in this field. The foundation has been laid for men to make a penetrating attack on the nature of life." With deeper understanding of the proteins and DNA of the human body, it should become possible to treat and correct genetic diseases, now mostly incurable. "Why," says Pauling, "we could increase the life expectancy of Americans by 20 years. I don't mean just keeping old people alive 20 years longer. We'd keep people in their youth and middle age for 20 more years, with their health still good...
...park bench and pondered a problem in physics: how to produce microwaves shorter than any that had previously been generated. Before he got to breakfast, Townes thought he had the answer?and four years later he completed a device that proved he was correct. It was a maser, in which hopped-up ammonia molecules were made to serve as an atomic clock of unequaled accuracy. Since then, Townes's maser has been used to check Einstein's theory of relativity. It may soon revolutionize radar and open up new channels for communication. Townes is currently on leave from Columbia University...