Word: beall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youth for the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest. Since then, he has worked as a carpenter, plasterer and handyman, fought as a Marine in two wars before hitting upon his present trade. Today, he lives with his second wife Joanna, daughter of Industrial Designer Lester Beall, and works in the front room of the cottage they live in on Father Beall's gentlemanly farm in Brookfield Center, Conn...
...have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. So wrote Upton Beall Sinclair of an era that cried out for reform at almost every level of American life. He was a quixotic dreamer, an eccentric, a compulsive dissenter in the intellectual tradition of a Thoreau or a Tom Paine. Yet Sinclair, who died last week at 90 in a New Jersey nursing home, battled so many causes to the finish that the American conscience and the quality of American life were permanently affected by his concern, courage and compassion. And, more than six decades...
...Norman E. Shumway Jr. suggested, it would be a good thing to transplant at least one lung, or a large part of it, along with a heart. Nine transplants of lungs, or lobes of lungs, have failed. The tenth, performed a fortnight ago by Dr. Arthur Beall of Dr. Michael DeBakey's team in Houston, was doing well last week...
Conventional hospital heart machines weigh as much as 1,000 lbs., but the new portable pump, developed by Baylor's Dr. Arthur C. Beall Jr., fits into a suitcase, weighs little more than 50 lbs., and can operate on batteries. In bed, little Phan Thi Truong pointed happily to her chest, saying again and again "Numbah One"-thanks both to the surgeon's skill and to an ingenious mechanical Numbah...
Transceiver & Beeper. Pilots who are hit head for open water if they can. "Our chances of rescuing a pilot who falls in the Gulf of Tonkin are 99%," says the Third's commander, Colonel Arthur W. Beall, 50, of Orlando, Fla. Even over North Viet Nam itself, the Third estimates that it pulls out 60% of downed airmen, excluding those who fall directly into populous or heavily garrisoned zones. Rescues are effected by a combination of coordination, technology and guts. Each airman is equipped with a $2,400 survival kit containing, among other things, 400 ft. of nylon rope...