Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian revolt demonstrated communism's "fatal defect"--an inability to blot out man's yearning for freedom even under dictatorship. This will lead to "the undoing" of communism "in a decade or more," perhaps sooner...
Famed Surgeon Alfred Blalock repaid part of the debt he owes to dogs for the use he made of them in perfecting his blue-baby operation. Squeaky, a seven-month old female Rottweiler, was suspected of having a heart defect. Examination by Blalock and Pediatrician Helen Taussig showed that the trouble was really an intestinal block from an auto accident. Decision: immediate surgery. Time for operation, performed by Surgeon Blalock, in the animal operating room of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital: 1½ hours. The patient did fine...
Main objection among the surgeons to this type of operation is that the Ivalon does not stay spongy, but shrinks 20% and becomes as hard as a baseball. Dr. Edgerton admitted this defect (he is careful to warn his patients of it in advance), but felt that the operation was still justified because "it is important to do something for the patient emotionally." About 30 of the 500 surgeons at the San Francisco meeting said they perform this operation; some have abandoned it because they got poor results, had to remove the polyvinyl in a second operation...
...succeeded. By a complex series of separation processes ending with centrifugation at 40,000 r.p.m. for 75 minutes, he got a protein-free pineal extract. When he gave it in daily injections to schizophrenics, their symptoms became less severe and their body chemistry, usually marked by a defect in sugar metabolism, edged back toward normal. After injections were stopped, the biochemical improvement lasted about a week, and the mental improvement about ten days longer. On repeated courses of injections, the patients got better and better. Says Dr. Altschule: "We have not yet reached the plateau at which improvement has leveled...
...serious defect in the Communist countries, the student said, is the selection of university students according to social class. Approximately 60 per cent are taken from the working classes, and about 30 per cent are peasants. This makes it extremely difficult for members of the "intelligentsia," or of other social groups to get into the remaining 10 per cent. The country, he said, is arbitrarily robbed of its talent...