Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President was thoroughly aware that his trip was something of a long-distance whistle-stop tour, an exercise in diplomacy that could help burnish his tarnished image. Johnson has manipulated most of the levers of presidential power with a skill matched by few of his predecessors, and in the process has achieved a legislative record second to none. But he has been unable to budge the lever that in the end controls all of the others: public opinion...
...Painful Process...
Cheaper by the Dozen. Standard tests for single blood factors generally cost a patient from $2 to $5; half a dozen tests may cost a package price of $15 or so. The old-fashioned process is also costly in technicians' time, while doctor and patient wait hours or days for the results. Dr. Albert L. Chasson told a Technicon symposium last week in Manhattan that the SMA-12, which he operates at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., is testing 10,000 blood samples a year at a price to the patient of $9 for the dozen chemical determinations. Only...
Survival of the Fittest. Financed by a grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, Plant Pathologist Isaac Wahl began his search for resistant oats in Israel-on the theory that the varieties of wild oats growing there must have built up some sort of immunity. "In the process of evolution over millions of years," he explains, "the survival of the fittest applies to cereal grains...
...closeups when he needs dramatic intensity, a standard TV technique for "grabbing" the audience. Although close-ups can be an extremely effective dramatic device (see Hitchcock's Sabotage at Harvard Film Studies this fall), they are rarely as effective when the film is in Panavision, a wide-screen process with a 1 to 2.5 screen ratio. Wide-screen has plagued directors for more than a decade; Fritz Lang says it's only good for filming "snakes and funerals," and Hitchcock doesn't like it because you can "always trim the sides off." In any case, TV filming has little relation...