Word: tics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plea for Sanity." Plainly, Hanoi hopes that by punishing Americans it would help dampen U.S. determination to prosecute the war - or at least discourage continued bombing. Actually, the effect would certainly be precisely the opposite, inflaming the American public and all but eliminating the domes tic dissension that Ho Chi Minh interprets as evidence that the U.S. will pull out of Viet Nam. Indeed, warned Georgia's Richard B. Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, executions of American pilots would "bring about the application of power that will make a desert of their country...
...patients were victims of an excruciating form of facial neuralgia known as tic douloureux, which often seems doubly painful because the victims know there is no sure relief. Drug after touted drug and a succession of surgical procedures have been tried, only to be found of limited value, or to be discarded entirely. But hope was rekindled when Columbia University's Dr. William Amols told the American Neurological Association that a new drug, carbamazepine-not yet generally available in the U.S.-has given relief to 75% of patients for as long as two years...
...basic cause of tic douloureux, or trigeminal neuralgia,* remains as little understood as the disease's power to set off stabbing, lightninglike pain, as severe as any known to man. It usually involves one side of the face, sometimes affects the forehead and eye region, but more often concentrates its attack on the cheek and jaw. In early stages, the stabs of pain last only a few seconds and may be hours apart. In more severe cases -and most victims get progressively worse-pains may recur several times a minute for hours or days, and leave a continuous "background...
Carbamazepine, to be sure, is not the answer for all tic douloureux victims. Dr. Amols made clear that ten patients had to quit it because of such side effects as severe rashes; four enjoyed only temporary benefit and then required surgery, while six got only the bad side effects. But as evidence of its value, Dr. Amols noted that before he began using it, his institute averaged 28 operations a year for tic douloureux; in one year with the new drug, the number dropped to 18, and last year to six. This year there has not been...
...spacecraft with setting stars on the earth's horizon, they were able to navigate precisely without aid from computers on the ground. They were also able to track the first three minutes of the spectacular flight of a Polaris missile as it was fired from beneath the Atlan tic by the nuclear submarine Benjamin Franklin...