Word: ultramodernism
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Houston Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey and the team of American specialists who joined Kean in Cairo brought with them a set of ultramodern machines to "nourish" the Shah's enfeebled blood. After hurried consultations with Egyptian doctors, the American team decided to operate on Friday night when the Shah's fever fell and his blood count improved. At a Saturday press conference following the one-hour operation, doctors pronounced the Shah's condition "very satisfactory." But further tests were planned to determine how far his cancer had spread beyond the spleen...
...looked at Harvard's administrative structure as a combination of the features of two unforgettable buildings, the Science Center and Memorial Hall, you wouldn't be far off. The University bureaucracy has in the past decade acquired the streamlined, ultramodern but still sprawling look that characterizes the steel-and-glass Science Center. But to students who need something from it or, more often, are forced into its corridors, the Harvard administration continues to share the Byzantine complexity and grotesque illogic of Memorial Hall...
...given day. Then the hospitals must charge more than ever to cover the cost of maintaining those empty beds. A case in point: New York City spent $200 million on its ultramodern 510-bed Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, then found it had a city wide surplus of some 3,000 beds. But since the city would have to spend $20 million a year to mothball the "dream hospital," it plans to put it into operation eventually, at a cost now estimated as high...
...gains by U.S. forces so far: Newer planes. Some of the Air Force's squadrons are being bolstered with ultramodern F-15 Eagles, widely regarded as the world's best fighter. Many Phantoms, meanwhile, have been fitted with advanced missiles and targeting devices...
...rough edges. Lacking singers of international caliber, the Brno ensemble fared poorly in such star vehicles as The Makropoulos Affair. But Mr. Brouček was a crowd favorite, both because of the sensuous, tuneful music and the lavish production mounted in the 1,400-seat, ultramodern Janáček Theater...