Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weak when he started his family's procession into the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa three years ago. The boy had suffered since birth from a narrowing of the valve between his heart and lungs, and a hole in the septum (wall) between the right and left upper chambers of the heart. Surgeon Joe Burge Jr. hooked the ten-year-old up to a heart-lung machine, closed the septal defect and widened the valve. Though still short, Jimmy is now a sturdy fifth-grader...
...over Irvine's residential region, bulldozers and graders, carpenters and builders were busy this week. At Dover Shores, a development on upper Newport Bay, 70 houses of the planned 311 have already been completed (60% of the homesites in this development were sold in two months, for houses costing from $46,000 to $190,000). And earthmovers were digging away at a 160-ft.-high dam that will hold a billion gallons of water to be used by the University of California and the residents of Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach...
Computers may some day hold conventions of their own, delivering learned papers on people and running up expense accounts. Last week, however, man still had the upper hand as the Association for Computing Machinery held its 18th annual conference in Denver. William C. Norris, president of the highly successful Control Data Corp., told the convention that "only the world's needs for energy rival the world's needs for computation and data processing." Though U.S. industry has already turned out 15,500 computers worth $5 billion, Norris' enthusiasm was not farfetched. The computer is becoming so versatile...
Diamond knew that the speed of sound is greater in warm air than in cold air. If a sound wave, rising through the sub-zero temperatures below the upper jet stream, suddenly hit a layer nearly as warm as the earth's surface, the top of the wave front, he figured, would accelerate. The whole front would then bend back earthward and rumble down. Diamond figured that he might be able to bounce a boom off the upper stream, predict its course, and record the boom as it came back to earth, thus helping to confirm his rocket data...
Each year brings evidence that the lower orders of Britain have acquired another caste mark of the old upper crust. Now it is autobiographies, hitherto the prerogative of retired generals, statesmen, colonial officials and men of letters who are willing to design their own public monuments...