Word: basal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quickwit may be fictitious, but similar applications are flooding colleges across the country. The problem is how to cull the lucky few from the overqualified many. Forced to refine their criteria, admissions directors now seek "highenergy" students (basal metabolism readings may be next) and especially "interesting people." How to seem interesting is every applicant's new nightmare. As one New York headmaster recently told anxious parents: "The only solution is to make sure that your boy builds a submarine in the basement...
Familiar But Unfamiliar. The two types of cancer involved are called basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas, from the types of skin cells among which they are found. For patients who had widespread forms of either of these cancers, Dermatologist Edmund Klein of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo tried using familiar anticancer chemicals-but he used them in an unfamiliar manner...
...ointments until they are sure just what form of the disease they are dealing with. The ointments do no good against melanoma, for example, and their misuse could lead to fatal neglect of this highly malignant cancer. Nor should they be used on the patient with a single, isolated basal or squamous cell carcinoma, because these cases are treated more effectively, and more simply, by X rays or surgery...
...times-and had gone through two broken marriages. In 1960, he became the first man to survive an auto crash at over 200 m.p.h., when his turbine-powered Bluebird spun out of control at the Bonneville Salt Flats and soared 681 ft. through the air. That cost him a basal skull fracture and a $4,500,000 car-$112,000 of which was his own money. In 1964, he scored another first, setting records on both land (403 m.p.h.) and water (276 m.p.h.), but again there was a clinker: his land-speed mark applied only to direct-drive automobiles, because...
...buttons-pushing the green one when they like what they see, the red one when they don't. This week the previewers will also be wired for sounding. Audience Surveys Inc. will start using a device that measures reactions by electrodes attached to the fingers; the electrodes measure basal skin resistance, and if a sampler is relaxed and enjoying the show, there is literally no sweat...