Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple facts were apparent: - Mao Tse-tung is still his nation's leader and a vigorous one at that. - Mao's army is the chosen vehicle of a sweeping change he has decided to impose on his 750 million people. - Mao's anointed heir and chief instrument, Defense Minister Lin Piao,*59, has emerged as the redeemer of the revolution...
...most concerned with raising Hollywood's "standards of excellence." "Forget about image," he preaches. "Image is an illusive word. Du Pont's greatest public-relations instrument is nylon. What we've got to do is make excellent movies"-not the sort of movies, he implies, that are being turned out by the M.P.A.A. members that hired him but rather those of the creative cinema of postwar Italy, the New Wave in France and now England. "The next creative center," he concludes, "will be here. We are educating an audience that will not accept the ordinary. We want...
Doctors who have worked with the staplers are impressed with their uniform precision and safety even more than their time-saving abilities. The staples are bent by the instrument's grooved anvil at tolerances of two-thousandths of an inch; their tops are rounded like the letter B so that blood can continue to circulate through the two arches and the sutured tissue will not be squeezed to death. Unlike silk or catgut sutures, which can harbor infection, the stainless steel staples are virtually nonreactive and do not hinder healing...
Filter in the Vein. The possibilities of surgical staplers are not limited to sealing off tissue. One instrument is capable of joining two hollow organs such as the stomach and small intestine, simultaneously cutting the necessary opening between them and stapling them together, in a 5-minute procedure that usually requires 20 minutes or more of scalpel work and stitching. One experimenter with the staplers, Dr. Mark Ravitch of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, has worked out a new way to prevent emboli (traveling blood clots) from passing into the lungs through the vena cava, the body...
...action only against the toy store, not the toy manufacturer, with whom he had no direct relationship. This so-called "citadel of privity" was notably undermined in a New York case that stemmed from the 1959 crash of an American Airlines Lockheed Electra into the East River during an instrument approach to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Anneliese Goldberg, whose daughter was among the 63 victims, filed suit, claiming that the accident was caused by a faulty altimeter that had registered a height of 500 feet when the plane was at ground level...