Word: rods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart has been visualized without surgery once before by the use of a rigid stainless steel rod also introduced through the blood vessels. But the rigidity of this instrument made it difficult to manipulate. It was unable to pass through the variety of valves, blood vessels and chambers that the flexible fiber optics system can, Dr. Gamble said...
...members of the Banal Generation (dean's-list students, over 20, and not even flower children) do hereby affirm our faith in the warmth and empathy of the poetry of Rod McKuen [Nov. 24] and do unanimously declare that your review is Truman Capote with a twist of formaldehyde. SANDRA BARKER CATHY TRACY MARGOT GRONHOLZ Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio...
...President's more popular days, McNamara was a lightning rod for criticism. Now he had become a more direct conductor into the White House on the eve of a very tough election-year battle. He is too intelligent not to have realized this and not to recognize that he had lost a mite of the influence he had previously commanded...
Curtis' Kicks. Phyllis Diller owns three Excaliburs, in yellow, silver and grey-presumably rotated to match her hair. Bobby Darin, Eddie Albert, Actor James Darren, Batman Adam West and Writer Rod Serling have one apiece. Steve McQueen got one for his wife. Dick Van Dyke and his wife wear raccoon coats while tooling around in their yellow model; when people yell hello, Dick and Marjorie wave little pennants that say "HI." Tony Curtis sold his two Excaliburs. He's got four other cars anyway, and besides, Tony gets his kicks now by restoring authentic antique cars. "I suppose...
...cast, Jewison is uneasy. Poitier, a perfectly competent actor, ends up doing just what he has done in his last dozen interchangeable movies. And Lee Grant, as a bereaved widow, overacts like crazy, feigning grief by endlessly shaking her head. Predictably, the most impressive performance is that of Rod Steiger, but even his is shrouded in the high-television fakery that dominates the movie...