Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Veterans Administration Hospital in Buffalo, a team of doctors and electronics experts has constructed a pacemaker to be implanted permanently in the body. The device is 2½ in. in diameter, 5/8 in. thick-about the size of a railroader's pocket watch. Powered by mercury batteries with a five-year life, the built-in pacemaker has been tried in dogs, and has kept one alive for four months...
...flash to a halt in a swirl of shaved ice, start again in a burst of speed that may well be the most explosive in the National Hockey League. He is solid enough (5 ft. 10½ in., 190 Ibs.) to hold off a defense man with one thick arm while stickhandling the puck with the other. And when he slaps one of his lefthanded shots, the puck is a black blur that can twist the goalie's thick ash stick in his hand...
...started with a chorale prelude and then, using subjects from an unfinished fugue by Bach, spun out four three-part fugues, one of them built on the name and the four notes B-A-C-H.* Throughout, Busoni gradually modernized his musical vocabulary, ending with a style marked by thick, dissonant clusters of notes. The effect, as presented by Dutch Pianist Petri, is a little like watching a nature film in which plants miraculously blossom and grow before the viewer's eyes. Amazingly, Busoni's collection of twigs and branches emerges looking like a single plant...
...fusion and poor morale throughout the company. At times, the troubleshooters sent out from Baltimore only stepped on each other's toes, and compounded the trouble they were sent to fix. For some plant areas, everything operates by word of mouth. In others red tape is so thick that the head of a subdepartment must clear everything he does with his department chief. Martin's men at Cape Canaveral are as good as any. Yet they complain of silly rules that forbid coffee or Coke breaks (one Denver scientist was recently dismissed for drinking Coke from a Thermos...