Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-known hazards of the currently glamorous sport of scuba diving, such as Cousteau's "rapture of the deep" and the decompression "bends," a Swedish physician has added another. It is of such deceptive simplicity that it has been generally overlooked. Pressure changes in the middle ear, reports Aviation Physiologist Claes E. G. Lundgren in the British Medical Journal, may cause dizziness so severe that the afflicted diver literally does not know which way is up and may swim to the bottom when he wants to head for the surface...
Poetry & a Refuse Bin. The President's official week was climaxed by a physical that disclosed no evidence of any worrisome aftereffects of his 1955 heart attack. Johnson's personal physician, Dr. George G. Burkley, repeated the tactful fiction that his patient weighs only 200 Ibs., but added emphatically: "His health is comparable to that of any man of his age. And he is more active than most...
...Luton, chairman of the government-appointed Independent Television Authority, last week ordered ITV channels to rearrange their schedules. The new rules: "Between 8 and 9 p.m. on weekdays, not more than two programs a week should be American." Not that he was anti-American, explained Lord Hill, a physician who won fame a generation ago by dispensing friendly medical advice over the BBC. It was just that "the authority recognizes that this is an appropriate time for popular family programs, and wishes to see it occupied by programs of high quality...
...form of birth control. For every birth in Uruguay, there are three abortions. In Brazil, some 2,000,000 women a year have abortions. Argentina has even begotten an industry of 6,000 registered midwives, most of whom specialize in illegal abortions. "Some women," claims one Buenos Aires physician, "see nothing extraordinary in having four or five abortions." Pills & Clinics. Throughout Latin America, the church still opposes most forms of birth control. But in some areas, individual priests are quietly going their own way. In Venezuela and Peru, they are participating without fanfare in government information programs; in Colombia...
...modern jets make it hard for the human ear to detect anything but the most obvious trouble. And by then it may be too late. To give pilots and maintenance a boost. General Electric is developing a sonic analyzer that can be applied to jet engines much as a physician's stethoscope is applied to the human chest. A trained and sensitive electronic ear, it listens for malfunctions and locates trouble spots...