Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharper Than a Knife. Nobody knows how ultrasound achieves most of its effects. But its use in neurology at Iowa City has a solid base in years of painstaking research. Physicist William Justin Fry, 39, worked with underwater sound for the Navy during World War II, went to the University of Illinois at Urbana and carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus...
...Neurosurgeon Russell Meyers, who had long been convinced that the way to treat Parkinsonism was by destroying nerve bundles in two tiny parts of the brain (one on each side) called the ansa lenticularis. But he found conventional surgery too crude and damaging: it meant putting a knife through healthy tissues to get at the almost inaccessible ansa lenticularis. He saw the same objections to alcohol injections (TIME, March 21, 1955). Dr. Meyers believed that ultrasound might prove sharper and more precise than any scalpel, worked with Fry in designing and building a treatment room for Iowa City...
Tasco told police his assailant asked him "Are you from Cambridge?" and that when he replied affirmatively the assailant plunged a knife into his abdomen...
...White (opposite), by Jean-Paul Riopelle, 34, one of Canada's two leading abstract painters. In Paris, where Riopelle now works, his larger canvases bring as high as $6,000. Working in intense bursts of creative activity (22 paintings last month) and laying on paint with meticulous palette-knife strokes, Riopelle is a moody painter. His Composition in White grew out of a trip to Austria. "The snowcapped Austrian mountains reminded me of Canada," he explains. "For weeks I was obsessed by snow and winter. I finally painted this to get the obsession out of my system. I always...
...over his strong views supporting manned bombers against guided missiles, said Godfrey, he has adopted a "self-imposed censorship" on his radio and TV shows. He admitted that his plans for the nation's defense-which he got down on hands and knees to illustrate with a table knife on the carpet -have already queered Godfrey himself with the Administration...