Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swelling or inflammation. The trouble, the professor explained, was that these patients had not yet developed any of the few specific symptoms by which he could pinpoint just what particular disease each suffered from. To the bright-eyed Selye, this was only half the story at best: in his view, all the patients already suffered from a state of "just being sick," which medicine was ignoring. He wanted to know how this came about, and what all its victims had in common...
...Rochester's Indian-born Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, 30, has succeeded by applying a technique he refers to as "fiber optics." With his new method, said Dr. Kapany last week, he has already designed a glass "gastroscope" which can be snaked down the throat for a detailed closeup view of the human stomach...
...massive central balcony and surrounding galleries of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week were aglow with an unprecedented display of masterpieces. On view were Giotto's famed Paduan fresco Betrayal of Christ, Piero della Francesca's looming Resurrection, the Louvre's Mona Lisa, El Greco's towering 16-by12-ft. Burial of Count Orgaz and Georges Seurat's 7-by-10-ft. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. To equal the experience, an art lover would have had to visit 26 museums, travel some 15,000. miles...
...Cambridge 39) four are delivered in the Harvard Square area, and a corresponding figure is shown on several other publications which come daily from New York, with an obvious time value. The problem is a considerable one from both the post office's and the public's point of view, but there appears to be no ready solution which might come about in the next few years. It seems unlikely that the New York, New Haven, and Hartford will change their ways in the near future (the line now blames "inclement weather" for the bulk of its delays...
...sixteen point program based upon their party's platform. Yet at present their proposals are not much more than an important step in the right dircetion. They should strive to make the Democratic party an effective instrument of opposition and of leadership, and to present the liberal point of view in a Congress where many ideas need challenging...