Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stimulated interest in efforts by his and other laboratories to produce an artificial heart. It will, he predicts, come in stages. First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast. Second, a portable but still external model. Eventually, he hopes for an implantable device with an internal power supply that will enable the patient to resume normal activities. Even then it may not be a substitute for the whole heart, but only for the two lower, more important pumping chambers...
...than mark time by playing on the U.S. Olympic basketball team. Besides, as a family man who now lives in fashionable La Jolla, Calif., with his wife Erna (the Middle E) and his year-old son Elvin Jr. (the Little E), the Big E had to think about Green Power-that $400,000 four-year contract he signed with the Rockets...
Despite bright expectations that PBL could avoid bickering and office politics, the lab became embroiled in the same sort of power struggles so notorious at the commercial networks. Executive Director Westin, a 39-year-old former CBS producer, was the hapless mediator. His staff members were fractious because they did not feel they had freedom enough to experiment. The managers of many of the 130-odd public TV stations that carry PBL protested, on the contrary, that the programming was too avant-garde for their audiences. As the lab seemed to flounder, the Editorial Policy Board, a group of outsiders...
...have a single theme (this Sunday's: a study of whites' reaction to integration). There will be no more of what Westin calls "instant topicality." Westin is now producing background programs on issues that he anticipates will again become crucial-the crisis on the campuses and the power of the military-industrial complex, for example. When finished, the shows will go into a bank to await a news...
...however, the December flight of Apollo 8 will involve some chilling perils. Besides anticipating the kinds of problems that could occur in a simple near-earth orbital flight, lunar-mission planners must plan realistically for troubles that would be magnified by sheer distance from earth. Should life-support or power systems begin to fail on earth-orbital flights, astronauts are usually within half an hour to three hours of recovery on land or water; a relatively small thrust from a retrorocket can lower their orbit into the atmosphere, where friction provides the additional braking necessary to return them to earth...