Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before Kingsberg arrived at Harvard three years ago, pick-up speedball games on Manhattan cement were the closest she had come to soccer matches. But the shock of switching from concrete to grass was only the first of many adjustments that Kingsberg had made over her Crimson soccer career...
...purely cosmetic reasons. In one recent case, for example, plastic surgery was used to treat a girl of eleven who had a fold of fibrotic skin hanging from her genital area. Said Dr. P. Bela Fodor, who performed the operation at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan:"There's a good chance she will never have a recurrence and that she will go on to live a normal life...
Plastic surgery often has to be repeated over and over. Lynne Ann Courtemanche, 35, of Manhattan, has spent 18 years undergoing surgery on her face and body; the tumors are removed as soon as they appear. For Courtemanche, president of the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation, the continuing ordeal is preferable to no treatment at all. She recalls seeing, at 17. a picture of John Merrick. Says she: "I thought, 'This is what I'll look like in a couple of years.' I didn't really know if I wanted to live that long...
...mood in the 54th-floor boardroom of Chrysler Corp.'s offices atop the Pan Am building in Manhattan was understandably subdued. Sales were still slumping, costs continued to soar, and back in Detroit the company had earlier in the week announced a third-quarter deficit of $461 million, by far the largest quarterly loss in its troubled financial history...
...arrogance of mighty sovereign nations. But officials never even debate the merits and drawbacks of nationalization; it's outside the narrow range of the politically possible. One type of government enterprise with historical precedent is the crash program to cope with a crisis or meet a technological challenge. "Manhattan project" and "moonshot" are ritual utterances for politicians trying to summon the national will...