Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nodular Implant. A few minutes before 8 o'clock Friday morning Dulles was wheeled into an operating room, put under anesthetic. Surgeon Heaton cut a small incision in the patient's groin to get at the hernia, kept his eye peeled for a sign of recurrence of the cancer. On the hernia sac he found a suspicious-looking nodular implant. He noticed, too, that a small amount of abdominal fluid was released after the sac was cut away. By Walter Reed's high-speed pneumatic tubes he shot the tissue and the fluid to the laboratory...
Although she is most successful with schizophrenics, Dancer Chace works with all kinds of mental patients, twice a week goes into the wards. She allows her patients full freedom in dancing out their emotions (one woman smashed the record when an aide forced her into a formal polka). When a combative patient makes a menacing advance, she may win him over by sinking to the floor and smiling, to show that she is no threat. The breakthrough may take weeks, e.g., not until two months after she had asked one patient if he had studied dancing did he break...
...many cases, doctors say, it is possible for the patient to return to work, especially in persons of advanced years. Dulles will...
...Kansas City, where everything is up to date but seldom ahead of it, barbers formally welcomed the new middle ground (as well as a 25? fee boost, to $1.75). "I think it's a trend, maybe a revolution," marveled Barber Virgil Sherman Holycross, 59, patient servant of teen-age fads for 35 years. "Maybe they all want to look like they're learning to build a Sputnik." "It's sort of like a compromise between being a punk and an egghead," explained Central High Senior Larry Cornine, 17. "Personally I don't want to look like...
Fashionable Roman Sculptor Renato Signorini said that he had accepted a gilt-edged commission from Monaco's Prince Rainier: an 18-carat solid-gold bust of Princess Grace. Buckling down to three months of "very patient work," Signorini grandly measured the value of his work-to-be: "Priceless...