Word: oak
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Shoot the President. The courtroom, occupying half a gallery room, surrounds the spectator on four sides. Three of them are dark, oak-framed panels on which are painted the small robed figures of judge, jury, prosecuting and defending attorneys. The juridical figures are fitted out with identical, froglike ceramic masks. Only the spectators, on the fourth wall, have a variety of normal human faces. In the center of the courtroom stands an ordinary old-fashioned oaken chair. "I want to make a bridge between the spectator and the event," says Friedensohn, "but an indeterminate one. I want him to think...
...requests seemed reasonable enough. In addition to a $500 salary hike, Baltimore teachers, for example, won the right to refuse such time-consuming chores as toilet patrols and supervising afterhours playgrounds. But there were other contract demands that school boards clearly could not consider. Striking teachers in Oak Park, Mich., demanded the right to fire their principals and to turn off school intercoms when announcements interfere with their teaching...
...Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...million people in the U.S. are exposed each year to diagnostic medical X rays; 50 million have dental X rays; 8,000,000 are fluoroscoped. According to Karl Z. Morgan, health physicist on the 1943 Manhattan Project and now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, many of the millions are probably being dangerously overexposed to radiation. Before the Senate Commerce Committee last week, Dr. Morgan admitted that statistics on radiation hazards are guesses at best-but he suggested that anywhere from 3,500 to 30,000 U.S. deaths may result each year from the cumulative effects of radiation...
...made radiation (now equal to half the total of natural radiation) adds up to 55 mR* annually for every American, said Dr. Morgan, and 90% of this comes from diagnostic X rays. At Oak Ridge, where nuclear physicists are so conscious of radiation hazards that they have done everything conceivable to reduce them, the skin exposure from a chest X ray is 10 mR. This low and relatively safe dose can be matched in any well-equipped, properly run X-ray department and it is achieved by qualified personnel in many of the better hospitals. But, said Dr. Morgan...