Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aircraft repairman at Travis Air Force Base in California was admitted to the base hospital with severe malaise and nausea and passing dark urine. Liver function was abnormal, and a laboratory examination showed evidence of infectious hepatitis. Within 24 hours, not only the man's wife but all their eight children had telltale symptoms of hepatitis. A team of Air Force medics headed by Major Ralph D. Reynolds reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine that the virtually certain source was water leaking from the freeze balls. The water also carried whooping-cough germs, an amoeba and four species...
Died. Sir Henry Dale, 93, top-ranking British physiologist, who shared a 1936 Nobel Prize in medicine with Austria's Otto Loewi for pioneering work on the function of the chemical acetylcholine in the body; in Cambridge, England. Body-produced acetylcholine, Sir Henry found, acts on the nervous system to lower blood pressure. He later discovered that histamine, another body chemical, may cause allergies and respiratory ailments, a find that led to antihistamines for colds and allergies...
...role as presidential adviser has been grossly exaggerated. While he was indeed called in on "a few critical matters," most notably Viet Nam and the Detroit riots, he said that his role was not to shape policy but to synthesize the arguments of others in clear legal style. "My function," he noted, "has been to listen to what is said . . . then to sum up the arguments on the one side, the considerations on the other...
...readjustment of Cambridge's traffic jam patterns inspired the city to install two large and several small traffic islands in the middle of Brattle Square. These, surfaced first with mud puddles and then iced with macadam, are now dead space. They offer no visual interest and serve no social function, except to prevent cars from doing U-turns from one one-way street to another...
...made a mistake in directing such a cold play in emotional high-style, emphasizing spectacle with aluminized mylar sheets mirroring the audience, incense burning-away, and bits and pieces of Artaud and Grand Guignol. The set, grotesque caryatids awesomely conceived and executed by Sebastian Melmoth, nonetheless serves little intrinsic function in Ginn's concept, appearing only as so much lavish decoration surrounding the playing area. The costumes and lighting, however, work better, and are superb as only the Loeb can make them...