Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kill. A month ago two men burst into the home of Florentino Lazo at Manzante village, blasted Lazo and his son José with carbines as they sat at dinner. Florentino had been suspected by his killers of recently doing away with Mariano and Isabelo Tayaba-who, in turn, were thought to have killed Lauriano and Pablo Sadabo. Besides, young José was scheduled to testify soon at still another murder trial. Police had all the motives they could want, and jailed two suspects...
...even that was not fast enough for Thompson. Later this month he plans to take a crack at the world's land-speed record of 394.196 m.p.h. set in 1947 by Britain's John Cobb. The hot-rodders who turn respectfully on the salt flats to watch Thompson are confident that he will eventually hit 400 m.p.h. in Challenger I. And so is Mickey Thompson: "There's plenty more where that 330 came from...
...worms were neatly concentrated, so he was able to cut out the mass and restore full blood flow through the artery. The operation, says Dr. Segal, is similar to that used to correct stenosis (narrowing) of the pulmonary artery in children. The work, therefore, affords valuable practice and may turn up information of value in human surgery. Since he rates it as research and not a medical service, Dr. Segal collects no fee even when the patient is a high-priced...
...young Dr. Jones's consuming interest was in affairs of the mind. At the century's turn, he relates, medical psychology was virtually nonexistent in Britain. The doctors' approach to the mind was through the brain and other physical components of the nervous system, so Jones became a neurologist. (So was Freud.) Next, he went through a phase of studying medical uses of hypnotism. (So did Freud.) Then he discovered Freud's early writings on psychoanalysis, and knew that he had found the one true faith...
...rhyme for earth is girth, and in the radiance of earthlight, a moon-maiden's face would shine bluish green. But if science fiction is somewhat short on romance, it does offer today's readers the kind of adventurous, he-man escape from gravity once found in turn-of-the-century western yarns-a commodity not to be dismissed in this day of beatniks and Angry Young...