Word: hookups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lasted 114 days, was an unexpected disaster that deprived the struggling Western Edition of sorely needed parental support. In the first nine months of 1963, the Times lost $2,709,000-as compared with a profit of $618,000 for the same period in 1962. And the elaborate communications hookup between New York and Los Angeles, which permitted the West Coast paper to be edited back East, proved extremely expensive to operate...
Across the street in Charity Hospital, other surgeons made an incision in Davis' right flank. They implanted the chimp's ureters in Davis' bladder, and made artery and vein connections. Within ten minutes after the hookup, Adam's kidneys began to purify Davis' blood and produce urine...
With every Mediterranean ripple, jumpy wire service editors cabled their Athens correspondents to find out where Jackie Kennedy and the Onassis yacht Christina were. No one could say. Only the White House was able to keep tabs with a special microwave hookup. Culture-conscious Jackie was charting her own Odyssey, over to Lesbos for a look at the island where the poet Sappho was supposed to have thrown herself into the sea. Then on to Crete for a session with Sister Lee Radziwill, clambering around labyrinthian Minoan ruins. The last stop was at Delphi, where, intent on the guide...
Bobby rolled up his sleeves and turned his office into a command post. With him there were Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, several other aides, four maps of Tuscaloosa, a TV set and a radio. An open telephone line and a radio-telephone hookup linked him with the Administration's field force in Tuscaloosa: a team of U.S. marshals and Justice Department officials, headed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, a big, balding man who is even tougher than he talks. At Fort Benning, Ga., 400 Army troops, specially trained for riot duty...
...heart-lung machine (1953), variant machines appeared at several medical centers. One of the most successful was built at the University of Minnesota, where Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei had already gone so far as to use another human being as a heart-lung substitute in a cross-transfusion hookup. Heart-lung machines are now so good that at least one operation once rated impossible has become standard in many medical centers: total correction of Pallet's tetralogy,* the most common cause of blue babies...