Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dirt's Out." (Early this year, with competing detergents cutting deeply into Tide's share of the market, P. & G. switched the $9,000,000 account away from B. & B. to Manhattan's Compton Advertising.) Tall, handsome and well-tailored, Lusk rarely departs from an inborn affability. But last year, when B. & B.'s Co-Founder Chester Bowles publicly lamented the years he had spent in advertising because "there's a lot of phoniness that runs through it," Lusk angrily shot back: "If an advertising man were asked to advise young people about going into...
...Fifth Anomaly. Most blue babies, so called from the color of their fingertips and lips, suffer from a set of four inborn defects in the heart and arteries, known as Fallot's tetralogy. The effect is to recirculate much blood from which oxygen has been naturally removed in the veins, and send only part of it to the lungs for re-oxygenation. The Taussig-Blalock operation, devised years before open-heart surgery with a heart-lung machine became possible, is a compromise: it consists of purposely creating a fifth defect-a connection from the aorta to the pulmonary artery...
...words with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics." Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst was off on one of the orations that were the delight of the Senate from...
...Harvard social researchers have classified for the first time the personal traits associated with juvenile lawbreakers as essentially constitutional (inborn) or essentially environmental...
Treatment for PKU. Basil O'Connor, head of the National Foundation (the old March of Dimes group), pointed out that at least two inborn errors can now be treated. In phenylketonuria (PKU), an infant is unable to metabolize phenylalanine (one of the basic components of many proteins) and is in danger of severe mental retardation. Treatment consists simply of giving the child foods that are specially processed to remove phenylalanine. In galactosemia. the inability to convert galactose (which the body derives from milk) to glucose, untreated infants are prey to fulminating, fatal infections, and survivors suffer severe physical...