Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeats- scientific lwas that are built into our lives from the day we are born, but he is not made to discover them for himself. His world contains no geometrical relationships or concepts of thrift and capital accumulation; he encounters no daily physical examples mechanical engineering, and does not undergo the analogue experience of complex social and occupational relationships. He cannot acquire automatically that all important fidelity to standards of competency and responsibility fundamental to the existence of orderly political community and dynamic program of economic technological and educational development...
...entrance to the building will also undergo extensive revision. A glass-front will replace the open hallway, and the approach to the theatre's interior will be cleared of intermediary doorways. The renovation plan includes complete refurnishing and repainting. There will be new projection equipment, and a new screen the same size...
...Goats undergo the surgeon's knife for nerve-grafting experiments. Pigtailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, marmosets and rhesus monkeys figure in cancer and behavioral studies. Horses and sheep provide blood for scientists anxious to study rabies and staphylococcal infections. Rice rats, Mongolian gerbils and Egyptian spiny mice are used in nutrition studies; some mice are inbred for as many as 99 generations so that researchers can study the mechanisms involved in tissue transplants. Venus clams by the dozen sacrifice their hearts to the study of the chemistry of the nervous and muscular systems...
...down the gold-plated guest list at the out-of-town premiere last week of Noel Coward's new musical comedy, Sail Away. The show will open in Manhattan Oct. 3, but first Coward's story, set on a Mediterranean cruise ship, will probably undergo a considerable shakedown. Involving miscellaneous love stories, particularly the experiences of an American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the Mediterranean sun. Sail Away is sometimes too reminiscent of the first Noel, and much of it seemed wooden to Boston critics. But Elaine Stritch, as the cruise hostess, is full...
Surgeons have known for 400 years that patients who undergo amputations continue to have "sensations," ranging from a pleasant tingling to excruciating pain, in the limb that is no longer there. They have dubbed it "pain in the phantom limb." Now surgeons are coming around to the idea that the best way to exorcise many cases of phantom pain is by phantom exercise...