Word: stryker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While employed as an office manager for a Colorado company that services oil wells, James Stryker embezzled more than $280,000 from the firm. His wife knew nothing about the crime until Stryker committed suicide ten days after the company accused him of the theft. Even so, the U.S. Tax Court has just ordered Mrs. Stryker, who has since remarried, to pay more than $80,000 in back taxes on the embezzled funds. Stryker had not reported any of the income on the couple's joint tax returns. But under the Internal Revenue Code, declared the court, a woman...
...forms are not mutually exclusive; in fact, they can complement one another quite nicely. Roy Stryker, the man who directed the Farm Security Administration photography project discovered as an economics professor at Columbia the effectiveness of photographs in making abstract economic concepts tangible for his students. In clear contrast to Sontag, he became convinced that "the photograph... that little rectangle, is one of the damnedest educational devices ever made." Sontag correctly argues that "photographs do not explain; they acknowledge." But this is no reason to disparage photography--understanding is impossible without acknowledgement...
Last week, along with Scott's water mattress, another bedsore preventive was exhibited by the Stryker Corp. at the American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in San Francisco. Dr. Wayman Spence, a 29-year-old resident at Ohio State University Hospital, worked on the theory that "you don't have to float the whole body-just the butt." Spence observed that the body protects itself from friction by fatty tissues that move under pressure but return to their original shape when pressure is removed. As a substitute for natural cushions, he first tried placing wads of soft...
...preview of the kind of service to come, a self-propelled Central car, fitted with a streamlined snout and topped with a pair of Air Force surplus jet engines, last week whined through the flat farm country between Butler, Ind., and Stryker, Ohio, at a U.S. rail record of 184 m.p.h. The test indicated that with existing technology and only minor changes in roadbeds, U.S. passenger trains can easily reach the 125-m.p.h. speed at which experts say railroads can profitably compete with airlines for the short-haul passenger trade. Said Perlman, 63, who acted as "copilot...
When Kennedy was first admitted to the hospital, he was strapped in a canvas and metal stretcher called a Stryker frame, but later he was switched to a larger Foster frame to accommodate his 6-ft. 2-in., 230-lb. bulk. Named for the Houston surgeon who devised it in 1939 for recuperating back-fracture patients, the Foster frame is a kind of reversible bed in which the patient is immobilized between a pair of sturdy canvas slings. Besides keeping the spine rigid-which is absolutely essential during the bone-healing period-the Foster frame helps prevent the patient from...