Word: sy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican national ticket in 1952; 3) the Eisenhower heart attack of 1955, when Nixon faced the delicate task of assuming responsibility without appearing to usurp power; 4) the riotous Nixon visit to South America in 1958, which almost ended in his death at the hands of a Caracas mob; Sy the "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev during Nixon's 1959 mission to Moscow, and " 6) the 1960 campaign itself...
...much to be done," explains Bud Kramer '56, the theatre's manager); and of course the wicker reserved chairs in the front of the balcony have held their own -- though they too are hidden under a fresh coat of white paint; and even the new owners, Brian Halliday and Sy Harberg, have not yet been able to clear the old vaudeville dressing room under the stage of a hallowed rotogravure print labelled (boldly) "President Hoover Greets the Society of Motion Picture Engineers at the White House...
...Nobel Prize in medicine for 1961 was awarded last week to a man who began his lifework as a telephone engineer, has only honorary medical degrees, and can never treat a human patient. The $48,300 winner: Georg von Bėkėsy...
...sy (pronounced Bay-keh-shee) was born in Hungary, and was still there in the 1920s, when he did the fundamental research now belatedly recognized. As a telephone engineer, he concentrated on the human ear and in particular the cochlea, the "snail shell" of the inner ear. For research he built models, bored through the temporal bone of a corpse so that he could observe with strobe lighting the effect of sound waves on the cochlea, which is linked to the eardrum by three small, movable bones of the middle ear. What he saw was that the cochlea reacts...
This and other findings by Von Bėkėsy have given ear specialists new ways to distinguish between different forms of human deafness, which may be important in deciding treatment. After he left Budapest, Von Bėkėsy spent two years at Stockholm's Caroline Institute, which awarded the prize. Then he moved to the U.S., now works in Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory where, still experimenting, he has built a model of the cochlea big enough to hold...