Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time this season Harvard put it all together. Jeff Grate and Eric Gustafson kept Yale honest with their long shots while Chris Gallagher and Bobby Johnson worked over the third-place Elis underneath. And the man-to-man defense was superb...
WITH Guevara killed by CIA-inspired forces in South America, North Vietnam facing total destruction, and U.S. police forces arming to meet future civil rights riots, revolution doesn't look so rosy these days. So it's nice to have Gillo Pontecorvo's superb first film The Battle of Algiers here to remind us that military suppression doesn't always work...
Head to Head. No one, unfortunately, is more impressed with this Olympian effort than ABC's commentators. All last week they continually reminded viewers that they were seeing "a sports exclusive," "a really fantastic shot," and "superb coverage." Nonetheless, it was the picture that told the story, and during the first two days it was mostly a sad tale of the young U.S. hockey team being trounced by the Czech and Swedish teams. U.S. Skater Peggy Fleming cut a fine figure on the ice, but about the only good thing the announcers could say about the U.S. hockey team...
...operation may be a complete success, the surgeon may do a superb piece of needlework with sterile sutures, yet somehow the wound may still become infected just where the stitches were placed. Lord Lister, father of antisepsis and asepsis, knew this almost a century ago, and tried soaking his sutures in phenol (carbolic acid) to make them active as germ killers. But the effect wore off too soon. Surprisingly, even modern-day stainless steel sutures are almost as likely to be the site of an infection a few days after an operation...
...solution of the Purple Code fell to the U.S. Army Signal Corps' chief cryptologist, William Friedman, whom Kahn calls the world's greatest code expert. Friedman and his superb team had a head start. For example, they had already solved lower-level codes, and were familiar with common Japanese forms, such as "I have the honor to inform Your Excellency." As Kahn says, "these constituted virtual cribs...