Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diverted to undo what the bombers have done. While Haiphong harbor is still a prohibited target, the bombing of adjacent bridges, warehouses and marshaling yards has reduced the port to chaos; last week the one intact bridge leading out of the city was cut, thereby isolating Haiphong until the repair crews get to work. The bombing has not completely choked off men and supplies, but the military never expected...
...private bathroom, discovered one morning that the toilet was clogged. She immediately informed the janitor, who told her that it was necessary to apply to the apartment house "block committee." A member of the committee instructed her to fill out a form and take it to the area repair center for her district. etting this far consumed most of one day. Early the next day, the housewife appeared at the repair center. There she had to wait in line for two hours before she reached the comrade who allocated plumbers for her district. He studied his calendar, looked...
Several speakers dwelt on the cost of "unwanted-pregnancy disease." In physical terms, Johns Hopkins Pediatrician Robert E. Cooke, himself the father of a handicapped child, said it will be "many, many years before we have the medical means to repair genetic defects in the womb." In terms of the family, Dr. Sophia M. Robison, emeritus professor of Columbia University's School of Social Work, said it was still not generally realized how widespread is parental rejection of children who were not wanted in the first place. "Much social work in this area," she said, "is picking...
...users have been shown mainly in test-tube growths of cells from the patients' blood. What disturbed the geneticists was that the breaks and other abnormalities appear to be identical with those known to be associated with some congenital disorders. At successive stages of damage and attempted self-repair, chromosomes are found with notched or broken arms, with translocations in which a detached arm of one chromo some gets stuck to another, and quadriradial or cross shapes. Such abnormalities appear in some cases of mongolism as well as in several severe forms of anemia that are accompanied by stunted...
...price Hanoi must pay to get the goods through "is hurting North Viet Nam's warmaking capability." Some 500,000 people, said McNamara, have had to be di verted from other tasks to repair bomb damage. Since the President has authorized attacks on 85% of the 359 targets chosen by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, few really damaging targets remain. True, four airfields are as yet unhit, but only an estimated 20 MIGs are now operating from North Vietnamese fields. The clear implication is that the rest of Hanoi's air force now nests in China and attacks...