Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Editor now has some 35 pages of copy good enough for the next Scorpion. He will wait until he has at least twice that before putting the magazine together. "It's such a pain to put out, it might as well be big enough to be worth it." All the material is solicited, "hard wrung," from people either he or his board knows. A few things have come in unsolicited but, Kuttner says scornfully, "You pass a Cliffie on the street. She scowis. You scowl. Well, that's the kind of writing you get from these girls...
...eight-hour pain-reliever, originally approved by a Cambridge drug-testing firm, has been taken off the market by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said the original tests were "irregular," and the manufacturer has been unable to prove the drug effective without those tests...
...instrument is the human ear that at certain frequencies it can discern sound that moves the eardrum a distance only one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom. The close-up roar of a jet engine amounts to one million billion times this threshhold level; this causes actual pain and soon brings on permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced deafness...
Mixed Motives. For the surgeons, no less than for Hoi Pham, that reaction was a near miracle. For two months the child had stoically borne a pain in her neck that gradually forced her head toward her shoulder at a grotesque 30° angle. With paralysis from strangulation of her spinal column, she could no longer walk, could barely move her arms. A corpsman took Hoi Pham to Project Viet Nam civilian doctors, who have volunteered to care for civilians (TIME, May 20). With no neurosurgeon among them, they referred her to the Navy. Dr. Pitlyk found that Hoi Pham...
Cooling the Militancy. Masons and Catholics have been on the outs ever since Pope Clement XII in 1738 issued the first papal bull condemning the Masons on the ground that their beliefs and rituals amount to a false religion. Catholics are still forbidden to join the Masons under pain of excommunication. For their part, the Masons have seldom been reluctant in the past to condemn the Catholic Church...