Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ngari Kinyugo and Ayurvedic Vaid Bhagwandas Patel, and has attracted 2,000 members from Lake Victoria to Mombasa, charges dues of 280 a month, holds monthly meetings, forms committees and clashes with the government, just like medical associations elsewhere. It also feuds with rival organizations, notably one called African Repairs, whose aim is simply the repair of Africans but whose choice of name is unfortunate. Said one almost-member: "It sounds too much like a society of garage mechanics...
...thousands of years, repair surgery was limited to such obvious and available materials as wood, bone and ivory-which the body is usually quick to reject. Then doctors turned to refined metals. But the current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of the materials now favored are the polymers (basically familiar molecules in unfamiliar, complex arrangements), such as nylon, Dacron and Plexiglas. But even more widely useful are the silicones,* which may be solid or as gooey as engine...
...masterplan will most likely include the extension of rapid transit into North and West Cambridge--and with it the removal of the Bennett St. repair facilities to a site in some other part of Cambridge...
...special committee of the City Council met with officials of the Metropolitan Bay Transit Authority yesterday to discuss the safe of the Bennett St. repair yards and the extention of rapid transit into North Cambridge...
...skis is hickery with ash; flexibility is determined by the ratio of the two. In the lower price ranges ash is mainly used. The ski should have a durable plastic base, preferably "Kofix" or "P-Tex" which are polyethy. lene bottoms, require very little waxing and are easy to repair. Steel edges should be interlocking and slightly offset at tips and ends of the ski. The top should have a plastic cover or lacquer and plastic cover or lacquer and plastic top edges...