Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great drive to get 58 million more Americans under the age of 40 vaccinated against polio before the 1957 epidemic season (TIME, March 18) was stalled in its tracks. The difficulty-familiar in the troubled history of polio vaccination since 1954 - was the off -again, on-again supply of vaccine. Last year the vaccine was first scarce, then adequate, then overabundant; at year's end it was backing up in producers' pipelines. By a drastic failure of coordination between industry and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the manufacturers cut back production just when HEW, backed...
When the first manned spaceship takes off for Mars, it may be followed through emptiness by radio beams, perhaps by television. Comforting words and familiar sights from the receding earth will be useful for keeping the crew on an even mental keel. Also useful will be the voice of a soothing space psychotherapist...
...opera. The bill: those old double-yoked war horses, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci. Performed more than 200 times at the Metropolitan Opera, they were now rounding out a season that had only two more weeks to run. The casts were studded with familiar names, and in the pit was Fausto Cleva, veteran of the Met's Italian wing. But on this routine occasion the audience was treated to a beautifully sung, splendidly paced evening for which much of the credit went to two middle-aged American singers named Warren and Tucker...
...last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone to Peter Lind Hayes, who is substituting on his morning radio and TV shows. Peter occasionally let viewers hear the familiar adenoidal wheeze: "It looks bloop bleep like Wyoming. It's 123 degrees. You get headaches from the heat. But boy, that Bufferin [a sponsor] has been a godsend. By George, it's wonderful...
...many surgeons this was a familiar plaint from Dr. Walter, 51, who was trained at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital under the late, famed Surgeon Elliott Cutler. Says Walter: there are plenty of effective ways to sterilize surgeons' hands, their gloves, instruments and other equipment; the trouble is that bacteria are wafted around a patient's wound from faulty air conditioning, doctors' and nurses' noses and throats, or from a floor recently swabbed with a filthy mop ("The mop gets in the wound more than the hemostat"). Other Walter points: ¶Hospitals pay their...