Word: pivot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's 1966 championships. Monti could not bear the thought of standing around as a spectator while Nash or somebody else won the race on his own home course. Besides, Brakeman Sergio Siorpaes had designed a faster, more maneuverable sled with motorcycle shock absorbers and a central pivot that permitted both sets of runners to bank independently on curves. "I have never felt more like racing," said Monti after testing the sled. Even a crash failed to dampen his enthusiasm: during practice last month, he was clattering through Cortina's Curva di Arrive at 65 m.p.h. when...
Lest you get bored with the long interior scenes, Godard has greased every pivot on his tripod so that the camera often wheels about the room. In fact, Brialy occasionally hops on a bicycle and rides around the dinner table. By contrast, Godard has inserted five minutes of candid shots on the Paris streets which, grasp their subject matter so naturally that you never think of him trudging about with a bulky cinemascope camera. The abundant use of jump-cuts keeps the films pace fast and your eyes blinking for the entire 90 minutes...
Window in a Pivot. Then his case came to the attention of the neurosurgery department at the University of California Medical Center. There, like so many neurosurgeons before him, Dr. George C. Stevenson had been challenged by that seemingly impregnable floor of the skull. While studying blood flow in the brains of monkeys, he had learned how to slice through the anatomical maze at the brain's base with the aid of a binocular surgical microscope, and he had practiced putting tourniquets on the basilar artery...
...such an operation on 33 cadavers. They found that while nerves, blood vessels and other soft structures were difficult enough to cut through, the worst obstacle was an important but little-known bone, the clivus, which balances on the very top of the spinal column to form a pivot for the skull. There was only one way to get past the clivus, and that was to cut a window in it. To make this possible, a whole trayful of special instruments had to be designed and built. Those instruments were ready when the young baker was admitted...
...most precocious pair of sophomores in college ball. Walker, a 6-ft. 3-in. guard, is the team's top scorer at 20.7 points a game; Westbrook, a 6-ft. 7-in. center, averages eleven rebounds per game, is the key man in the Friars' pro-type pivot offense. And Junior Blair, whose mother started the whole thing, is no less a whiz: he is averaging 14.2 points a game, and against Iowa (which later knocked off national champion U.C.L.A.) he calmly tossed in two free throws with 17 sec. left to give Providence a 71-70 victory...