Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James V. McConncll, professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, and "Machines That Can Think," by Stephen F. Jencks '62, a second-year student at the Medical School and an undergraduate specialist in computer programming and information theory, are sufficient to suggest the advances looming on the horizon in their respective fields...
...Widened Horizon. The artery disorders for which DeBakey and his colleagues have devised ever more daring surgical procedures fall into two main classes: blockages and aneurysms. Blockages may be almost anywhere-in the greatest vessel of all, the aorta, in the coronary arteries embedded in the heart wall itself, in arteries leading to the legs, and in the carotid and vertebral vessels carrying blood to the brain (see diagram, opposite page). The brain itself, however, is the province of the neurosurgeons...
...branch off to supply the brain. The lower part of the body could be deprived of its blood supply long enough to let the surgeons cut out the diseased section and replace it with knit Dacron tubing. When the heart-lung machine became a practical adjunct in surgery, the horizon was suddenly widened. It became possible to operate anywhere along the aorta, while the machine supplied blood continuously to the brain...
...September immediately became a key to economic activity in the months ahead. "The effect of the settlement," says Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, "depends upon how steel users read it. The steel situation is still one of the biggest uncertainties on the horizon." If users continue to fear a strike-or fear that a steel price increase will follow any final settlement-they will keep stockpiling, thus postponing any sharp cutbacks in steel buying and production at least until September. If they are betting on a strike-free settlement, their steel buying...
...justifiable foreign policy action the U.S. has taken in recent history." Hughes added that to his knowledge," neither the President nor anyone else has presented solid evidence that the movement has been taken over by the Communists. Bosch would have made a better leader than anyone presently on the horizon...