Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house call. In 1956 it took him only 1½ hours. To pay for an appendectomy in 1936, a plumber had to work 73½ hours v. a mere 44 in 1956. But the general practitioner who needed 1.28 house calls in 1936 to buy his wife a new pair of shoes now needs 2.28. Where a surgeon could pay his stenographer for a year with fees from 12.36 appendectomies, he now has to perform the operation 19.44 times...
Last week Optometrist Newton K. Wesley of Chicago's Eye Research Foundation announced an ingenious solution: a bifocal contact lens with the distant-vision prescription in the center, enclosed by a surrounding area that corrects for closeup reading. Rotation therefore makes no difference. Wesley, who tried the first pair on himself, reports that 65 people who have worn the new lenses for as long as five months are enthusiastic. If they look straight ahead with eyes wide open, they see through the center lens. When they look down, the contact lens rises, so that they see through the outer...
Price range of bifocal contacts: $200 to $500 a pair...
...wages arid low taxes to use up-to-the-minute equipment. To fly fine 325-m.p.h. Super-H Constellations, Real's chief pilots get $900 a month, only about half what a U.S. captain makes for the same job. Nicaragua's tiny Lanica line recently put a pair of turboprop Viscounts on its Miami-Lima service...
Visitors sighted in with far more ease than their hapless hosts. When the Giants' Danny O'Connell collected a pair of homers in a single game, the Milwaukee Journal, which knew him as a hitless wonder when he played for the Braves, was moved to protest: "Any time O'Connell hits two home runs in one game, something's wrong. In his three and a half years here, with normal foul lines of 320 ft., he hit exactly NONE." Then the Chicago Cubs came to town. They demolished the Dodgers, 15-2, and hit four homers...