Word: drilled
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Control of the Drill. Instead of relying on any one of 75 local physicians -general practitioners, obstetricians, ophthalmologists, pediatricians and the like-Dr. Stevenson called on Whittaker, a highly skilled former Navy medical corpsman, to assist him on three occasions from October 1965 to July 1966. At those times he was called upon to operate a cranial drill and a flexible saw used to remove patches of skull. What were Whittaker's qualifications to do such work? After attending hospital corps school and a naval operating-room technicians' school, Whittaker testified, he had served not only...
District Attorney Robert Baker insisted that Whittaker had "complete physical control" of the drill with which he had bored burr holes in patients' skulls. Whittaker maintained just as stoutly that Dr. Stevenson had always put the drill in place. After the holes were drilled, a fine wire saw was passed through them to cut out the flap of bone. Toward the end of an operation, the surgeon or his assistant took a needle and suture thread and sewed up the dura mater, the brain's tough encasing membrane. A nurse testified that in some cases Whittaker had placed...
Troubled by such problems, Cellist Janos Starker recently hit on a solution that is "so simple as to be almost silly." Working with a Chicago violinmaker and a specially designed drill, he bored small, cone-shaped holes in the undersides of the bridges of several string instruments; these holes, says Starker, act like tiny megaphones and "dramatically" amplify the quantity and quality of the tone. So far, he has applied his treatment to 50 string instruments, including the Stradivari played by Chicago Symphony Associate Concertmaster Victor Aitay, who says it has made a "tremendous difference." Starker has applied...
...thousand-and-one nights at the old house. Last week the Met staged its new production of Lohengrin, and it, too, was a shocker-not for spectacle, but for lack of it. The stage was virtually stripped clean of scenery. Choristers stood in rigid rows like drill teams awaiting inspection; principal singers stirred hardly at all, and when they did, it was with the slow, deliberate movements of dream figures. The audience loved it, loudly bravoed Conductor Karl Böhm and Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig. But the real star of the evening was not there: Richard Wagner...
...true that cadets still must perform push-ups-but no longer over a bayonet; the yearly dose of close-order drill has been slashed by 70 per cent. Gone are the interminable handson-heels "duck walks" that once sent Douglas MacArthur to a hospital. Forbidden, too, are such hazing tortures as "shower formation," in which plebes braced at attention until perspiration soaked their bathrobes. Instead of requiring the traditional gibberish reply to the upperclassman's question, "How is the cow?"* a plebe may be ordered at dinner to deliver a ten-minute lecture on Viet...