Word: surgeon
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...Army is still conducting tests with hallucinogenic drugs and with alcohol-but only on animals. It has requested permission from the Surgeon General to do similar experiments again on humans, which Sim defends as "very important" to national security...
...doughty, spade-bearded Scottish actor; following a series of strokes; in King's Somborne, England. Gruff-voiced and massive (270 lbs.), Justice appeared in more than 40 films, among them Moby Dick, Les Misérables and The Guns of Navarone. He was best known as the irascible surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt in the British Doctor comedy series of the 1950s...
...Pain. Developed by Dr. Theodore Waugh, 48, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California at Irvine (U.C.I.), the new joint is a two-piece arrangement that weighs only five ounces. One part of Waugh's "U.C.I, ankle" is an inverted T made of a chromium and cobalt alloy with a concave tip. The other part is an alloy half dome...
Hole in One. Waugh, who also developed an effective artificial knee joint three years ago, is currently working on a smaller version of the U.C.I, ankle for children. He will soon leave for Sweden to teach other surgeons his ankle-replacement technique, which may prove particularly valuable for dealing with severe arthritis. Says he: "One of the good things about this operation is that any competent orthopedic surgeon can do it without much problem. It should bring tremendous relief to thousands of crippled persons." Waugh's patients share his enthusiasm for the ankle, which costs $375, plus the cost...
Like any immigrant group, Arab Americans have found their way in a variety of occupations-as peddlers, small shopkeepers, cooks, restaurant owners, then lawyers, doctors, engineers. Now they point proudly to such men as Ralph Nader, Comedian Danny Thomas, Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey and former Pan Am President Najeeb Halaby, who are all descended from Lebanese or Syrian forebears. One great hero is South Dakota's James Abourezk, a Lebanese American who is the first person of Arab extraction to make it to the U.S. Senate...