Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everett Dirksen was an eight-term Congressman back in 1948 when his doctors told him that he was losing his eyesight. Though a sure winner, he declined to run for a ninth term and went home to Pekin, Ill., to pray. Dirksen, who today is almost as sound of vision as he is of voice, is genuinely convinced that what saved him from blindness was prayer-and he is determined to pass on its 20/20 benefits to the rest...
...machines. The patient arrives with a medical-history questionnaire already filled out. He picks up a clipboard full of IBM cards, strips to the waist, dons a paper hospital gown and takes off on his rounds. Pulse rate, blood pressure, lung capacity, breath rate and strength, reflexes, urine, eyesight and hearing, all get a quick but thorough going-over...
...Certain Angle. Fonda's eminence is either inevitable or unlikely, depending on the eyesight, mood and metabolism of the observer...
Last week, troubled by failing eyesight, S. S. Kresge at 98 retired as chairman of the company he has nurtured for 69 years. Turning to younger blood, Kresge directors gave the chairmanship to S. S.'s son, Stanley, 66, who last year had to relinquish his vice-presidency upon reaching the firm's mandatory retirement age for operating personnel. The company's day-to-day operations will continue to be under control of $163,400-a-year President Harry B. Cunningham...
...verdict usually favors those who stress the subject. Harvard Biologist George Wald, 59, shows why. As a researcher, he has made one of the most enlightening finds of recent decades: his discovery of the Vitamin A molecule in the retina goes a long way toward explaining the physiology of eyesight. Light, it seems, makes this crooked molecule straighten out and signal the optic nerve. The very originality of such work also makes Wald a frontiers-of-research lecturer, and his "Nat Sci 5," in the Harvard Crimson's judgment, is "one of Harvard's truly great courses...