Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sell modern medicine to the 2,000,000 holdouts, said Madsen, physicians will have to adopt some of the curanderos' tricks. When they give vaccines to ward off an epidemic, they can say that they are injecting holy water. As for TB: "If the doctors just added donkey milk to the regular treatment, it might work out a lot better...
With all these promising new markets opening up. Kaiser Aluminum Vice President Ward C. Humphreys last week told a House subcommittee (which is studying the impact of aluminum imports that have captured 10% of the U.S. market) that the domestic industry will double in size by 1970. For the shorter range future, Harvey Aluminum's energetic Chairman Lawrence A. Harvey pointed to the industry's current 82% operating rate and said: "Any modest upturn in the economy will dry up the so-called excess capacity. The aluminum companies are not tearing down any plants-are they? In fact...
...plane skyjacked since May, and in this case the skywayman was plainly a mental case. Albert Charles Cadon, 27, was a Parisian who settled in Manhattan in 1957, tried his awkward hand at abstract painting, wound up as a busboy. Late last year he spent time in a psychiatric ward; later, Cadon raided the Chemstrand Corp.'s Empire State Building offices and smeared display posters with black paint in protest against a new fiber that, he said, had been named "Cadon'' without his permission. Fortnight ago, Cadon left his German-born wife in New York, next appeared...
...Pushbutton Montgomery Ward vending machine, now being tested in Chicago's La Salle Street Railroad Station. The 7-ft.-tall dispenser offers 53 different items, picked for appeal to commuters and travelers, ranging from muumuu nightgowns and panties to flashlights and pocket compasses. The machine accepts any amount of money up to $9.99 in any combination of coins or bills, visually records the amount paid in, returns the proper change when the customer has completed his shopping. Says the machine's attendant: "People are still a little bit afraid of it. They don't seem to want...
...omits ten others that to the author "seemed to go dead." The reader can approve both the deletions and the additions, and note with some astonishment that while this 66-year-old poet has written of the body's defeats in a new short poem called Surgical Ward: Men, he has also added a sheaf of excellent love lyrics. Among the best is The Sharp Ridge, which balances passion and precision in a way that recalls Shakespeare's Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds...