Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat segregation [in the South]?" Observer Caldwell not only replied yes, but answered so positively that he may be suspected by some Southerners of being a cryptocarpetbagger. His prophecy: "Eventually you'll have an amalgamation of the two races in the South. Nature itself knows no distinctions between human beings, no matter what language they speak or what color their skin is. The racial conflicts in the South will eventually and quietly be dissolved by nature-by the forces of procreation...
Ultrasound, as the practitioners of a new and arcane art call it, refers to vibrations above the limit of human hearing (about 20,000 cycles per second*) In industry ultrasound waves are used to precipitate carbon and sulphur from chimney exhausts, abating the smoke nuisance and recapturing useful materials, and for testing big metal components such as locomotive axles for flaws. In dentistry there is the ultrasonic drill. In medicine a few enthusiasts have reported good results with ultrasound in arthritis, neuritis, muscle spasm and athletic injuries. It will break up gallstones or kidney stones in an animal...
Holes in the Head. Three weeks ago, after innumerable experiments on animals to test accuracy, effectiveness and safety, the first human patients were wheeled in. Preparation took far longer than actual treatment. Under a local anesthetic four little dents were burred into the patient's skull, one above each eye and two in the back of the head. On a rolling table, the patient was wheeled back so that his head was under a stereotaxic (space-positioning) instrument. A pin on a micrometer mounting fitted into each burr hole. X rays revealed the main landmarks inside the skull. They...
...body was strung up by the heels in a summer kitchen. It had been eviscerated and dressed out like a deer. Her severed head was in a cardboard box, her heart in a plastic bag on the stove. Around the house the police also found: ten skins of human heads, neatly separated from the skull; assorted pieces of human skin, some between the pages of magazines, some made into small belts, some used to upholster chair seats (the largest piece, rolled up on the floor, was the front upper section of a woman's torso); a box of noses...
...historic shift of newspaper influence that has paced the human exodus from big cities, the middle-sized dailies (very roughly speaking, with circulations of 20,000 to 75,000) in smaller cities and suburbs since World War II have passed the metropolitan press with the biggest circulation upsurge in their history. While big-city papers' share of the reader market has actually slipped (from 39% to 37%) since 1953, middle-sized dailies today account for 39% of all the 57 million daily papers sold in the U.S.-and they are forging ahead at a steady 1% a year. They...