Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benton himself has been in the Senate since 1950, when he defeated Pres Bush by a minuscule 1,102 votes in a special election. Since then millionaire advertising man Benton has had an almost perfect voting record, so far as labor and the ADA are concerned. His handicaps are a reputation for insincerity and the same "bedroom citizen" tag which is troubling Bush...
Barring major upsets today, both Eliot and Adams should preserve their perfect records. The power-laden Eliot team plays Dunster and spirited Adams takes on Dudley...
...simple dinner of chicken bouillon, lobster jellied in champagne, spitted ham and truffles, 80 varieties of choice cheeses, bombe glacee and cake, all washed down with simple white Muscadet and 1947 Pu-ligny-Montrachet. "Simple French cooking is always the best," says Curnonsky. "When you've eaten a perfect meal, you know it, you don't feel...
Surgeons and medical inventors who have been trying to perfect a mechanical substitute for the human heart, to be used while delicate surgery is performed on the heart itself, got a fillip of encouragement last week. Three doctors at Detroit's Harper Hospital reported in the A.M.A. Journal that they had used a mechanical substitute for the left side of a patient's heart and kept his circulation going this way for 50 minutes. The patient made a good recovery. If, as the three doctors believed, they had diverted the patient's entire blood flow...
...years on substitute hearts, it was a group of newcomers in this kind of work who reported the latest advance. Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill, 50, specialized in chest surgery until two years ago, when he threw himself into the heart-machine project. General Motors research engineers helped him perfect the pump. After experiments on dogs, the surgeons were ready for a human patient...