Word: waldemar
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According to Dr. Carl Waldemar Walter of Boston's famed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, there are 1,200 "electrocutions"-deaths by electrical shock -in U.S. hospitals every year. Though the statement has provoked incredulity (a spokesman for the American Medical Association insists that it is "exaggerated by about 1,175 cases"), Walter stands by it. "I don't think it's an unrealistic figure," he said last week, "since we have about 7,000 hospitals and 30 million hospitalized patients a year." The figure would be far greater, he notes, if it included patients who suffer cardiac...
Barnacles & Baboons. Dental researchers have not ignored improvements in treatment. In another NIDR study, Dr. Nathan Cardarelli has been analyzing barnacle cementum with the idea that a similar synthetic substance might provide an almost indestructible tooth filling. Dr. Robert Hoffman of the Waldemar Medical Research Foundation has demonstrated for the first time that a metal can be welded firmly to dental enamel by ultrasonic vibrations. He hopes to use that method to replace missing teeth and damaged tissues. Working toward the possibility of a "tooth bank," the NIDR Dr. Paul Baer has already nurtured teeth in the yolks of incubating...
...Prague's Rococo Theater last week, a big crowd rocked to a big beat as bearded Singer Waldemar Matuschka belted out his latest hit, a paean to the motherland called My Horse Is A-Gallopin...
SCHOENBERG: GURRELIEDER (2 LPs; Deutsche Grammophon). Gurre is a castle where the maiden Tove and the Danish King Waldemar sing of love and death...
...Lions were the doormat of the Ivy League season last year with an 0-6-1 record, and lost most of their lettermen from that inept eleven. The only experienced players on the 1964 roster are All-Ivy halfback Steve Robinson and right wing Waldemar Schulz. In the team's first two games of the season Schulz broke the fibula in his right leg and Robinson dislocated a shoulder. (He has continued to play despite this handicap...