Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the last quarter-century, surgeons have been learning to correct many cases of the innumerable inborn defects of the heart. But one form of heart trouble has defied all their skill and ingenuity. Called total transposition of the great vessels, it is devastating in its effects on the victim. Half the babies born with it die within a month, and only a very few survive to reach a severely handicapped adolescence. But last week a team of Cincinnati surgeons reported to the American Heart Association that they had performed a corrective operation on a girl only ten weeks...
...Geiger counters had been carried aloft in the nose of an Aerobee rocket, and when their records were recovered, scientists could hardly believe the data. If the figures were correct, there was an object up there in the constellation Scorpio that has yet to be spotted by the most sensitive optical or radio telescopes. That object is spewing out more X rays than had been calculated to come from all the rest of the billions of stars in the galaxy put together. But because they are unable to penetrate the earth's atmosphere, the rays remain invisible to instruments...
Lockheed's echo-location system may some day have an important impact on antisubmarine warfare, for it shows that the human ear, when working with the proper mixed frequencies, can determine the composition of an unseen object. This could correct a major failing in present sonar systems in which whales are sometimes mistaken for ene my submarines. It may also put the Seeing-Eye dog out of business. Lockheed scientists hope to reduce the sound generator to the size of a flashlight; then the blind may learn to "see" with their skilled ears...
...force as harvesting conditions become more and more difficult. The "potato syllogism," in McLandress' homely phrase, argues that the ever-increasing complexity of U.S. foreign problems leads inevitably to a proliferation of policymakers, who proportionately take more and more time to reach agreement that the present policy is correct. The need for "effective acceleration of the decision-making process" eventually becomes so urgent that McLandress is called in to implement his theory that the State Department needs only to classify the various types of foreign crisis and feed them to computers to produce the right response instantaneously. The Secretary...
...carefully planned the details of her own Venetian palace. She revised the architect's plans for the foundation. She supervised the workmen--who had been specially imported from Italy for the project. (In fact, the walls of the court are not really pink marble: Mrs. Gardner's attempt to correct the painters produced that effect...