Word: scans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crudely lettered marching orders for Mao's rabble-rousing young Red Guards. As China's power struggle has gathered ferocity, handwriting on the wall has developed into the fine art of big character assassination, purge by poster and partisan propagandizing. Every morning, foreign correspondents in Peking eagerly scan the walls for information notably unavailable in the Chinese press itself...
...molybdenum-99 (half-life: 2.8 days), technetium-99m (half-life: 6 hours) is produced, and it accumulates at the bottom of the tube (the cow's udder). The milked technetium can therefore be created only moments before it is put into a patient, and the doctor can scan its internal path while it is most active; yet within 24 hours, it will have decayed to an undangerous one-sixteenth of its former self. Since patients are far safer, they can take many more such tests, thus vastly multiplying the data with which doctors can find out what is wrong...
...best opportunity in nearly a century to scan Manet's life work is the current exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Director Evan H. Turner has tapped 80 collectors and museums around the world, assembled 83 of Manet's oils, rounded out the exhibit with many more sketches, lithographs, pastels and etchings (see color pages). Although the catalogue, by Anne Coffin Hanson, art history professor at Bryn Mawr, is a collector's item for art scholars, the chronological exhibition itself will be seen again only at the Art Institute of Chicago...
Married. Mandy Rice-Davies, 21, baby-faced second lead to Star Christine Keeler in Britain's 1963 Profumo scan dals; and Rafael Shaul, 26, an Israeli airline steward; in London...
...wild week of parties at the beach. The summer travelers were siphoning back through gigantic customs bottlenecks, and millions of women throughout the U.S. were getting set for the months ahead. But no matter how frantic or busy, each somehow found time to leaf through the fashion magazines and scan the women's pages of the daily papers in search of one thing: where is that new coat, new suit, new dress or ball gown...