Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Real Edges. The story is typical of one preoccupation of John Cheever (TIME cover, March 27): the prosperous suburbanite who turns an unsuspected corner and falls off the edge of things into outer darkness. In synopsis, the occult shading of these stories can seem affected, but Cheever is persuasive. His edges are real, and the corners that one turns to reach them seem very near...
...lack. Religion is concerned with the moral law, the press with libel, the worlds of show business and sport with contracts. All of modern living is touched by legal questions from rent control to divorce, and even science thinks about the laws that might apply in outer space...
...first half to more than $1 billion this year. But commercial aviation work accounts for only half of Boeing's business. President William McPherson Allen. 64. the first aircraft executive to take a chance on commercial jets, believes that the company's real future lies in outer space. He has already begun preparing for other work at the firm's long-profitable Minuteman ballistic branch, which last week won the company two Government contracts totaling $21 million but is past its peak as a profitmaker. Boeing has also converted the defunct Dyna-Soar branch to space research...
...surgeon. He had taken charge of Jimmy's case two weeks earlier when the young son of an Air Force colonel had injured himself by banging on a .22-cal. blank cartridge with a hammer. Some thing from the explosion had slashed through the cornea (outer covering) of Jimmy's eye, through the dark-brown iris, through the lens and the gelatinous filler behind it, until it had come to rest just short of the retina, the screen at the back of the eyeball (see diagram). Repairing the cornea was routine. But find ing the object that...
Called the Curity Immobil-Air bandage, the device actually consists of two tubes, one inside the other. When it is pulled over a broken or badly burned limb, the inner tube fits loosely. Then, as a first-aider blows into the outer tube, air pressure forces the inner tube tight against the limb and extends it straight. The pneumatic splint prevents further damage from broken bone ends until the victim gets to a hospital. In burns, it prevents the seepage of body fluids-a major cause of burn "shock." And the pressure of the inner tube on the limb, whether...