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Word: hernan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incision is made in the penis or just behind the scrotum and a semirigid silicone rod is inserted into each of the corpora cavernosa. Another technique is to implant only one rod between the two structures. The most popular device, developed in 1972 by Urologists Michael Small and Hernan. Carrion of the University of Miami School of Medicine, has a somewhat inconvenient result: a permanent erection. But a jock strap or tight shorts make it undetectable under street clothes. Some doctors now insert bendable rods that can be turned downward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...cities, the capital is now one of the most blighted. Clouds of smoke from burning garbage, tortilla shops and public bathhouses-fortified by the rarefied oxygen at 7,347 ft.-make lung congestion almost epidemic and blot out the view of Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, the twin peaks between which Hernan Cortes advanced in 1519. Other urban areas-Guadalajara and Monterrey -are almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Road Back to Confidence | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...Guillermo Hernan Herrera Manriquez was arrested by DINA, Chile's dread secret police, near Santiago's central railroad station. Herrera was detained briefly and then was taken to his father's home; along with the rest of his family, he was placed under house arrest. The next day Herrera was allowed to speak to his wife, who reported that he had been badly beaten and his ears, mouth and genitals subjected to electric shock. Herrera was permitted no medical attention by his DINA guards. Two days later, his father heard noises from the room where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Terror Under the Junta | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

Communist Role. This year, pitted against the aging Alessandri and the arrogant, lackluster Tomic, Allende was more successful. He played hard on such ancient grievances as poverty, foreign "exploitation" and the crippling inflation rate, and won a wide range of supporters, including a few liberal clergymen. Declared the Rev. Hernan Larrain: "There is no incompatibility between being Catholic and voting for a Marxist." Even so, Allende was opposed by more than 60% of the electorate. In the view of many observers, he owes his victory to the fact that President Frei was not permitted by the constitution to succeed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Chile: The Making of a Precedent | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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