Word: pellet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defeated VIP. A typical task taught to chimponauts requires them to watch three shapes flashed on a screen and decide by pushing the proper lever which shape is not like either of the others. By doing this correctly 18 times, a chimp earns a banana-flavored food pellet. Some of them become amazingly skillful. The champion so far is a chimp that worked the levers 7,000 times in 70 minutes with only 32 errors. A human VIP visiting the lab rashly tried the same task and made a much lower score...
Crazing Crazes. Sahl works out every line himself, although he rarely writes anything down, and in collecting material buys newspapers and magazines by the long ton. Skimming, dipping, darting from headline to picture caption, he reacts like a pellet of pure sodium dropped in a glass of water, always has some fresh material for each new audience. There is usually some wild variation of the news, and a routine remark at a presidential press conference might come out as a caricature of the sort of bromide Sahl thinks the Administration is forever administering: ''The President says the Russians...
...year and had sold his shows to NBC for $1,000,000, he invested $50,000 in a small Manhattan chemical firm, the Fragrance Process Co. It was founded in 1952 by Alfred Neuwald, 64, a Hungarian-born chemist who used Barry's money to perfect a pellet to impregnate plastics with hundreds of different fragrances...
...anesthetized patient's neck to expose the main branching of the carotid artery, principal supplier of blood to the brain. At 15-minute intervals they inserted successively larger plastic emboli. All came to rest at the base of the malformation, reducing its blood supply. The last and biggest pellet lodged for a while in a wrong spot and threatened trouble, but eventually settled just where the doctors wanted it. Seven weeks after surgery, the patient could write legibly with her right hand, had no more speech difficulty...