Word: cataracts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Tired Rerun. The cumulative effect of the TV debates only served to underline the Nixon lag. Last week's go-round gave the Democratic candidate yet another chance to exhibit the Kennedy charisma-the smile, the cataract of words, the repeated promise to move forward-that has put Nixon at a disadvantage before the Big Eye. Debate No. 4 in itself gave little new substance to their views, though, as before, the tension of the confrontation made the occasion dramatic. The inflexible format and generally inept questioning by TV newscasters produced a disappointing, almost high schoolish, rerun...
...uvea (the pigmentary layer of tissues in the eye) to be misplaced, and this sets up inflammation. Most remarkably, the sight-threatening reaction develops in both eyes, though only one was injured. The second type results when a fragment of lens tissue is left after an operation for cataract. For this, the eye sometimes has to be removed...
...variety of visual defects. There are two main types of bifocals, one squared off so that it will not rotate, the other made of concentric circles, with the reading prescription on the outside (this type can rotate freely). When the eye has lost its own lens because of a cataract operation, a contact can help in many cases to supply the tremendous correction needed. Another type is being tried in the early stages of glaucoma. There is evidence that contacts may slow down the progression of myopia, and hope that they may actually reverse it in the young...
...fund for research in glaucoma and cataract has been established in the names of Max, Martha and Alfred M. Stern '25, Dean George P. Berry of the Medical School announced yesterday. The gift was made to the University under the terms of a trust created by Stern's mother...