Word: designers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a San Diego physician asked a technician at General Dynamics' Convair Division to sharpen a big and costly type of hypodermic needle, he had no idea that the trail would lead into the human heart. But more Convair design specialists and engineers got interested in medical gadgeteering; *last week a notable result was announced. They had developed a new and sophisticated heart-lung machine...
...reported on the basis of elaborate studies; such people are few. This knocks out the usual excuse for the commercial vaccine's failures. So the mass-produced vaccine must be beefed up to the potency level of his laboratory brand. But Dr. Salk also conceded defects in the design of the vaccine itself. It contains three strains of polio virus for the three broad types that can independently cause disease- Mahoney for Type I, MEF-1 for Type II. and Saukett for Type III. About 80% of paralytic polio used to be caused by Type I strains...
Choreography for the show is under the direction of Elizabeth Theiler '60, and Debra A. Cole '59 will design the sets. A nine-piece orchestra will play for the performances...
...Illinois Institute of Technology polled 100 top designers, architects, and design department heads of manufacturing firms and universities around the world, asked them to list the 100 best-designed products of modern times. The designers' top ten, announced this week...
...size "for one man to get his arms around." The head of each company is the boss, just as if he were running his own company. Within a loose framework of policy, he makes day-today decisions, sets his own budget, raises or lowers prices, sets up his own design and marketing policies, even makes capital expenditures...