Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South and he gets some of the credit for recent Republican comebacks in such cities as Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. Says his predecessor as National Committee chairman, Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton: "He's done an effective job, and he's done it on skin and bones. He's liquidated the party's debt. and he's run the committee well on K rations...
...minute electrical currents in the patient's skin, reflecting the motions of his heart, are picked up by the cardiograph. In the Dataphone they are amplified and converted into high-frequency signals for clear transmission. At the other end of the line, in an engineer ing laboratory at George Washington University, a receiver automatically switches on a tape recorder when the nurse's call comes in. The recorder dutifully notes the squeaky sounds it receives as the nurse transmits a ten-second signal from each of the cardiograph leads...
CARIBBEAN. At night torches blaze in the breeze, couples congregate at thatched-roof tables, while brown-skinned babes in tighter-than-skin pants gyrate to the hot blasts and calypso beat of bongo drums and steel bands. There is no place to dance, but the itchy-footed shake or shuffle outside on the sidewalk. It is, perhaps, better not to mention the food, but there is a $3 minimum after...
...before, the faces around the oval table at this year's Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting reflected the divergent interests and cultures represented in the network of free nations that has evolved from the British Empire: only five were white, and the other 13 represented every shade of skin from ivory-yellow through burnt umber to the blue-black of Africa's heartland...
...Seymour Schwartz of the University of Rochester reported that he had already implanted similar devices in two human patients. The major difference is that the Rochester pressure pacer uses no electrodes in the heart, but relies on its own battery pack, which can be recharged from outside the skin. A man with blood pressure running 220/120, despite drug treatment, had a pacer implanted on the right side of his neck two months ago, and is now reading 150/100 or lower. A woman patient who got the implant a month ago is doing equally well...