Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kolouch's prize case was a businessman of 46 who had had a mortal fear of surgery since childhood, capped by an unsuccessful operation for hernia repair at the age of 41. After this earlier operation he had needed seven doses of pain relievers and was hospitalized for five days. Moreover, the operation failed, and he suffered agony for five years because he could not face repeated surgery. Dr. Kolouch talked him into it and used hypnosis. With his unconscious anxiety and conscious fears at rest, the patient needed only one dose of an opiate...
Outraged and embarrassed by the bombs, Osagyefo (the Redeemer) threw a number of his opponents into jail. Work crews feverishly tried to repair Nkrumah's bomb-blasted bronze statue in front of Parliament House. Supporters symbolically bandaged the statue's shattered feet, covered it with white powder, and threw a calico scarf over its right shoulder-Ghana's traditional symbol of victory. Others slaughtered a goat at the base of the statue to cleanse it of evil spirits...
...finding tour of South Viet Nam, conferred at the White House with President John Kennedy on what steps the U.S. should take to shore up President Diem's government. Kennedy still opposes sending U.S. combat troops, but may agree to the dispatch of 1) U.S. Army engineers to repair the flood damage, 2) logistics experts to improve the inefficient supply system, 3) more anti-guerrilla trainers, and 4) helicopters to give government troops greater mobility in the nightmare terrain...
...southern portion of the country I understand suffers the poverty of southern Italy or Greece--perhaps worse. Not so the North which appears to be at about the same economic level as most of Austria. Buildings are in good repair, people are reasonably well dressed, and cities are quite crowded with automobiles. Strangely enough, the only poverty I noticed was in one of Ljubljana's best visited tourist attractions, the large castle on a bluff in the middle of town from which the city was defended against Turkish invasions from the 13th to the 17th century...
...costs of jet operations, Boyd and the presidents zeroed in on one likely solution: consolidating ground facilities. At many airports, each line maintains enough aircraft-support equipment, such as jet tow tractors (average cost: $29,000), engine starters and stairs, to service all the other lines as well. Consolidated repair and engine-rebuilding shops offer even greater possibilities for savings...