Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every step of the repair job was a novel and ticklish problem. Parts of the core that stood in the way were cut up and extricated on the points of slender spikes, all by remote control because of their radioactivity. The deadly inside of the reactor was invisible to direct observation, but long periscopes, manipulated through a 3-in. opening in the blanket around the core, gave a clear view of the melted spots. All these lights, probes and gauges had to be specially designed, and they were tested on an accurate mockup of the reactor before the atom...
...generalm anager of the MTA, Thomas J. McLernon, has stated that he would not object to selling the yards, with the usual reservation that the company would have to find a substitute site for its repair facilities...
...Senate. He arose, went into his study, and emerged with a copy of the letter which he sent to the newspapers, announcing his plans to seek the nomination. The Democrats, however, had already announced their support for another man, and feared a primary fight would weaken their chances beyond repair. They offered Meyer the rather dubious privilege of running for Congress on the Democratic ticket, and he accepted...
Fact is. no drug will cure frigidity, and no surgical operation will repair an unhappy marriage-although neurosis-knotted frigid women occasionally have persuaded doctors to perform pointless hysterectomies. Frigidity, says Dr. Linden, is not an illness in itself; it is simply a serious symptom of deep-rooted psychosexual conflict. Linden's stark conclusion: "The situation may be resolved if the woman patient can be restored to a truly feminine position. This would be the task of psychoanalysis. But even the most intense therapy may not be wholly successful, and many women must resign themselves to a less-than...
...year ago at the New York Harvard Club, the director of the Loeb Drama Center spoke hopefully and eloquently of the future of theater at Harvard. He considered it possible and even probable that Harvard, given the means, might become center to which the young and talented would repair to train themselves for the stage as they have in the past to train themselves for the bar or pulpit or the scholar's life or the director's or the politician's. But at the one time that he expressed this hope, Chapman accepted and supported the faculty view that...