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...seasons, took ice-cube-and-hot-water treatments before every pitching turn last year; even with pills and injections, he suffered so badly that any fan could see the agony on his face. His pitching arm eventually grew so crooked that he had to shorten his sleeves an inch on the left side...
...wing surface was not broad enough; the four jet engines were set too far for ward, thereby creating exhausts that swept over the tail structure and would shorten its life span; the fuselage needed to be longer to increase passenger capacity. Working against the deadline, Boeing engineers went back to the drafting board. Last week the result of their work was publicly shown: a redesigned $2,000,000 plywood, steel and aluminum mock-up of the 1,850-m.p.h. SST. Boeing's SST, to say the least, is differ ent. Now 306 ft. long, or twice the length...
...problem is that the Summer School administration decided this year to keep the Quincy dining hall open five days a week to shorten the queues at the Union. So about 400 students, girls, mostly, with a smattering of Harvard men who are living in their Houses for the summer, were assigned to Quincy; others with a meal ticket were given a yellow card--good at the Union...
Most U.S. oral surgeons have operated from outside the mouth, through the neck, usually cutting through the jaw bone to shorten or lengthen jaws. The procedure is likely to leave a scar and carries the risk of damaging a nerve, thus causing facial paralysis, and it does not permit the free repositioning of parts of the jaw. Only occasionally have U.S. surgeons operated entirely inside the mouth to move the jaw, something Dr. Obwegeser has made a standard practice. His techniques for moving and repositioning entire segments of bone, with teeth affixed, speedily correct severe defects U.S. surgeons have despaired...
Rhode Island's Brown University, which has no medical school, began a six-year science program in 1963. Though it will not necessarily shorten the time between high school and practice, it provides four years of undergraduate and two of graduate work, capped with a "master of medical science'' degree. Brown's reasoning: many men headed toward a medical-science career need extra time to decide whether to go to the bedside with an M.D. or into the laboratory with a Ph.D. Under the Brown plan they can go either way and finish in two more...