Word: organized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington home, Wisconsin's unmusical Senator Joseph McCarthy, pointedly omitted from the guest lists of two White House dinners last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), happily dawdled with a new toy: a fancy electric organ which his handsome wife Jean gave him for Christmas. After a few lessons, he had already learned how to pick out one tune. The song: Old Black...
Massachusetts is saddled with a haphazard system of piecemeal criminal legislation, Glueck's report states. The State lacks a unified, consistent theory of punishment and an integrative organ to coordinate the various agencies dealing with punishment and parole...
...fluoroscopic method of diagnos ing uterine tumors has been developed by Gynecologist Ralph R. Stevenson of Washington, D.C. First, he injects a harmless dye into the patient's uterus. As he manipulates the uterus, a "watching" X-ray tube projects a picture of the organ onto a fluoroscope screen, and tumors show up as shadows. A movie camera records the picture for future reference. Main potential benefit: fewer hysterectomies done on suspicion, but no sure proof, of uterine abnormality...
...headed dog, no freak of nature, was the latest product of Surgeon Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov, chief of the organ-transplanting laboratory of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences. Dr. Demikhov, says Blok, started in a small way by replacing the hearts of dogs with artificial blood pumps. Next, he planted a second heart in a dog's chest, removing part of a lung to make room for it. The extra heart continued its own rhythm, beating independently of the original heart...
...generals. He also has a winking eye for such social ironies as the marriage of an Episcopalian to a Roman Catholic in Scotland ("As Methuen had not made his submission to Rome, the ceremony was bare, although . . . the Bishop Auxiliary allowed a bit of extra-liturgical cheeterybung on the organ"). One of Author Marshall's most hilarious scenes: the shy young hero, out on a date, is prevented from doing what he desperately has to do because the unwitting girl defeats all his pretexts to get away for a moment, unable to imagine why the boy seems...