Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cause of mental retardation in infants, there is no cure. The doctors can only hope that careful studies will give them insight into its causes. In the meantime, they can treat many of its physical symptoms. Physicians use antibiotics to combat the susceptibility of Mongoloids to infections. Surgeons may correct heart conditions, the chief cause of debility and death. In 1900, Mongoloids rarely lived beyond infancy. A Mongoloid born in 1956 may expect to reach 20 years...
Right Time. Most 1957 auto models will have a new kind of clock, developed by General Time Corp., containing a device which automatically adjusts the clock to run on time. If the hands are set forward to correct a clock that has been running slow, the regulator makes the clock run at a faster rate. When hands are set back, the clock automatically adjusts to a slower rate...
...catastrophic" fall in British worldwide automobile exports [July 16] is mainly due to a catastrophic typographical error by TIME. The correct figure for January to May 1956 is 140,000 autos...
...China. We have a lot of refugees who decided much earlier. Naturally they deserve consideration first." As these organizations pondered, the Reds peppered the fishermen with. letters: "Since you went away, the government has reviewed the case and discovered numerous shortcomings and errors. We are determined to correct these errors, and earnestly wait for your early return." They even urged those "suspicious of our policy" to return in separate groups and send representatives back to check...
Since mid-May Clare Luce has been in the U.S. undergoing treatments to correct the arsenic-induced infection. Her general health is greatly improved, and she is scheduled to leave this week for a three-week Mediterranean cruise. Then she will return to Villa Taverna (the bedroom and its resetted ceiling have been long since redone in nonleaded paint) and to the embassy duties that she has often described as "no bed of roses...