Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Egypt, like all other nations, has a special fellow feeling for those nations which share its cultural traditions and for those ex-colonial nations which are in a similar phase of transition to independent democracy and economic progress. But the idea of trying to create an Arab empire or of attempting to dominate such an empire is repugnant to Egypt...
...Jordan, the supposedly pro-Egyptian Parliament voted to abrogate Jordan's treaty with Britain, then in a last-minute circus of second thoughts decided the idea might not be practical. Without Britain's $33.6 million annual subsidy, Jordan would be strapped for funds to keep even its Parliament going...
...trouble is that most women have no idea that they possess a muscle called pubococcygeus, let alone know how to strengthen it. At his Perineometer Clinic at Los Angeles County General Hospital, Dr. Kegel has developed an answer to that problem: a device (approved by the A.M.A.) called the Perineometer. Essentially a pressure-registering gauge, it consists of a compressible part inserted in the vagina, and a dial. Dr. Kegel tells the patient being tested to tighten her muscles. If the needle registers above 20 or 25 (the millimeters of mercury that the exerted pressure would support), the pubococcygeus...
...years ago Harvard Medical Student Judah Folkman, working under famed Heart Surgeon Robert Gross, got the idea that holes between the ventricles of the human heart might be closed with plastic (polyethylene) patches. Like all such ideas, it was tried first on dogs. Last week in Boston Children's Medical Center, a mongrel named Airplane, with a strip of collie in his bar sinister, was dubbed "Dog Research Hero of the Year," invested with a new collar and silver medallion by Cardiologist Paul Dudley White for having helped to prove the operation feasible. Airplane now leads a pampered existence...
...Masters should see the pointlessness of the eleven p.m. hour, which was a Student Council idea originally, and extend Saturday room permission until midnight...