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...frequency range used by short-wave broadcasters. The signals were sent into the body by electrodes or other devices attached directly to the skin immediately above the tumors. The doses, lasting up to 30 minutes, never exceeded 25 watts-the power drawn by a small light bulb-per square inch. The lightly sedated patients generally felt no pain and did not suffer serious damage to skin or other tissue. Nonetheless, the radiation was strong enough to raise the temperature of the tumors ten to 20 degrees above the surrounding tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooking Cancers | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

McCulloh said "my form is really awful" but that he now tries to drive his inside leg up, moving his hips higher and allowing them to leap that extra inch. He said this finally "clicked in my head the past few weeks, and I've jumped well since then...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: 'Nothing' Works for McCulloh, Harvard's Other High Jumper | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

...this musical is like watching a marauding shark becalmed in a suburban swimming pool. As an actor, Nicol Williamson radiates a sense of imminent danger, mercurial passion and magnetic authority in such a way that he could be every inch the awesome monarch that Henry VIII was. But in Rex he is submerged in a book that swamps that masterful Tudor reign with research-soaked tedium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Imperator Submersus | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...like the National Fire Protection Association. The result: an encyclopedic collection of do's and don'ts, 7 ft. thick if stacked together and packed with dizzying minutiae. Six pages of regulations deal with wooden ladders. Sample: "Knots, if tight and sound and less than one half inch in diameter, are permitted ... provided they are not more frequent than 1 to any 3 feet of ladder length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGENCIES: Putting Trivia Ahead of Safety | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...yard fourth, which former tour star Tommy Armour once called the greatest in the country, Vik sailed a 220 rapier sharp three-iron to the back of the elevated green girdled by Greist Pond, which dominates the layout. Vik lagged his birdie attempt one inch from the cup and had settle...

Author: By Robert I. W. sidorsky, | Title: Tigers Powder Linksmen; Elis Round Out Tri-Meet | 4/23/1976 | See Source »

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