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...contestants to bid for the clues they wish to buy. The clues, in the form of rhymed couplets ("Morning, noon and night, you'll find me tight") may help the player guess the identity of an object silhouetted behind a scrim curtain (in this case, an electric light socket). Other times, the clues, and an accompanying cartoon, may refer to persons or sayings. The program is somewhat complicated by such intramural banking as selling one's clues in midshow for a $1,000 consolation prize. The prizes are all highly consoling, from Bergdorf Goodman minks to tickets...
...father of mass production, U.S. business pioneered in standardizing thousands of parts and products to spur sales and cut costs. It set up specifications, for example, so that a light bulb would fit the socket no matter who made it. But while showing the world the benefits of standardization, U.S. firms have done a poor job in helping set up worldwide standards. They have left the field largely to other nations, simply because many U.S. businessmen are unaware of the importance such standards play in world trade. This importance was emphasized last week as 1,000 delegates from 40 countries...
...decided on a rare and ingenious operation developed in Russia and China, seldom done previously in the U.S. The idea: to take one of Dougherty's salivary glands (there are three on each side) and reroute it so that the saliva would flow into the right eye socket and restore his vision. In a delicate, 2½-hour operation, Surgeon Mays cut into Dougherty's right cheek, freed the parotid salivary duct almost back to the ear, cut it free from the inside of the mouth with a bit of mucous membrane attached, then...
...easily establish a pressure equal to that of the water at his depth. But if he holds his breath while descending, he creates a low-pressure pocket in his lungs: his blood is at a higher pressure, and blood vessels (especially in the lungs, but also in the eye socket and ears) may burst. This will cause the spitting of frothy blood-an alarming symptom, but in this case not likely to be fatal...
...exposed the left hip joint which had been fused by the arthritic inflammation. He sawed off the top of the thigh bone (femur), ground the remaining end of the bone to the right depth and angle. He reamed out a hemispheric cavity in the pelvic bone, to accommodate the socket part of the metal ball-and-socket joint. Dr. Wilson drove a long shaft (bearing the ball) into the marrow cavity and fitted a flange (just below the ball) to the head of the femur. Another flange, on the socket, he screwed to the rim of the acetabulum (the socket...