Word: ultramodernism
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...Take It." Sooner or later, many business and professional people come to need the services of Dr. Chope's ultramodern public health department because they try to drown their tension in alcohol. Some, even among the highest paid, become welfare cases if they are too long between jobs, or have a catastrophic illness in the family. "San Mateo is a great place to live," says Dr. Chope, "if you can meet its exacting standards. But it's tough if you fall below the margin...
...Shakespeare. The crowding and confusion not only bother the surgeon; they are also a disadvantage for the patient: every extra warm body in the operating room is a potential source of infection. Last week, at the huge Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., the National Institutes of Health dedicated an ultramodern surgical wing designed to clear the crowds from the operating room, while giving both surgeons and patients the greatest possible benefits from advances in technology...
Just One Look. The President had been informed of the birth while still airborne. But he, along with his sister, Jean Smith, who heard of the birth over her car radio, were waiting in Jackie's room when she came back from surgery. Peering into an incubator (an ultramodern type known as an Isolette) in the private nursery, the President saw his tiny, brown-haired son for the first time at 2:30 p.m. Three hours later, he wheeled the incubator up to Jackie's bed, and she saw little Pat for the first-and only-time...
...were thoroughly mixed, the dilution of the heavy water would show the body's total water volume. All this was easier said than done; it took 2½ years to get results that satisfied Moore's meticulous demands. Today, with the aid of radioactive tritium and an ultramodern scintillation counter, the job can be done in minutes...
About ten miles from France's ultramodern atomic-energy center at Marcoule, and half a mile from the big Donzere-Mondragon electric power dam on the Rhone River, is a dilapidated farm that seems right out of the Middle Ages. The sprawling, tile-roofed stone house has neither hot water nor electricity. The men and women who inhabit it dress in monkish white costumes woven on their own looms, and advertise their faith by wearing wooden crosses on their breasts. They eat simple, vegetarian meals of food grown in the dry, sandy soil that they work with handmade tools...