Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors had handed their early diagnosis to a small, inner White House circle-Mamie Eisenhower, Assistant to the President Sherman Adams, Deputy Assistant to the President Major General Wilton ("Jerry") Persons. The diagnosis: Eisenhower had suffered an occlusion of a small branch of the middle cerebral (brain) artery on the left side; the occlusion, or blockage, might have been caused either by a small clot or a vascular spasm (see MEDICINE). In short, though the White House would not use the word, the President had suffered a stroke...
Developed by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., the suit has a loose outside layer of shiny, aluminized fabric to protect the inner layers and to reflect solar or A-bomb heat. Inside is a coverall of special, airproofed nylon material carefully fitted to the individual wearer's body. In its normal, pressureless state, it is flexible and reasonably comfortable (see cut). Cold air or oxygen can be pumped through it to cool the pilot if his cabin gets...
Unless something goes wrong, the suit stays relaxed, but if the cabin loses its pressure at, say, 150,000 ft., an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the suit from the airplane's supply. The inner suit blows up like a man-shaped balloon. Complicated pressure-and temperature-regulating gadgets go into action, surrounding the pilot with an environment in which he can stay alive in spite of the near vacuum that has developed in the damaged cabin. He has at least a chance to fly the airplane down to livable...
Vidgren's inner turmoil as a young artist-type chafing at the halters of a narrow secondary school environment and Caesar's Gallic Wars becomes an unbearable torture in the days following the night he finds Miss Olsen, the town tobacco-shop girl, staggering dead drunk through the streets. Despite Vidgren's initial revulsion at the girl and her unsavory reputation, the two quickly become bosom companions, as Vidgren tastes the joy of his first affair...
Attrition of Consciousness. Psychologist Progoff sees many truths of modern psychology in this mystical method. He regards its author as one of the "early experimenters in psychological development" working in a neglected field-"the faculties of the inner life...