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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medical men have been aware for half a century that X rays can be destructive to human tissue. Overdosage of X rays for benign purposes can have malignant consequences. Example: careless treatment may cure acne, but cause skin cancer. Despite this established knowledge, X rays are still being incautiously used as cure-alls...
...woman in the street. Isn't it pleasant, after all, that you can make a whole street pretty?" Concentrating on simple morning suits and handsome evening dresses ("I have no use for the afternoon -that hour when women sit together and sip tea"), Crahay splits his styles into X and Y lines: the X with bloused top, narrow waist, padded hips; the Y with wide shoulders and a dizzying décolletage swooping down to the waist. Prices : about $300 for an evening dress, $120 for a daytime dress. The U.S. buyers, who had been wary of last year...
...x (WAC +Sex) = Box Office TNT Scriptwriter Stanley Shapiro and Director Blake Edwards (This Happy Feeling), two of the most promising young masters of movie comedy, have applied the formula with such style that the studio has been able to guarantee the customers exactly 287 (count 'em) laughs without fear of refund. And while the public rolls in the aisles, the professionals should take careful notice. Furlough is a definitive encyclopedia of comic cliche...
Charles W. Medick, one of the nation's top table-tennis referees, smiles tolerantly when he hears the cry familiar to his trade: "Whatsa matter, you got no eyes?" Medick is blind, from an accident in infancy. But Medick, a 36-year-old Los Angeles X-ray darkroom technician, has been policing table-tennis players for a dozen years. "I'm sure I've made a bad call or two in my career," he concedes. "But I can't recall when...
...program to put a man in orbit and bring him back alive, called Project Mercury, is distinct from the tests scheduled for the stub-winged X-15 already built by North American Aviation. Inc. Essentially an extra-tough airplane, the X-15 will climb into nearby space under its own rocket power and glide quickly back to earth under full control. Project Mercury's space capsule will be designed to achieve an around-the-earth orbit, but it will land passively by parachute...