Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon clear that the twins' livers were joined. But before this problem could be faced, the surgeons separated the rib cages, found that the hearts were surrounded by a fused sac. They cut it so that Jeanett's heart had a normal sac; Denett's was open until they stitched it shut. Major blood vessels to the liver proved to be separate, but in cutting the bridge dividing the two organs, no fewer than 75 minor vessels had to be cut, and their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently...
...many jet-age problems facing the world airline industry, the most pressing is how to find enough passengers to fill all the expensive new planes that will soon be flying. At the 15th annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association in Tokyo last week, Director General Sir William P. Hildred posed the problem, and provided an obvious answer: "We shall have to feed progressively larger gobbets of traffic to these monsters or they will eat us up, capital...
...despite a whole arsenal of props and an agreeable assemblage of players, topped by TV's Tom Poston, Golden Fleecing is into the second act before it explodes into laughter. Then it expires in the third. Playwright Semple cannot solve the author's great problem of getting his people into trouble while staying out of it himself. He is too laborious tying his yarn in knots, too predictable untying it. Amid Director Abe Burrows' sharp whipcracking, there is too much forced wisecracking; amid a great many antics, there is never quite enough...
Peter Gesell's performance as Jim the Gentleman Caller presents something of a problem to the critic. Mr. Williams describes Jim as "a nice, ordinary young man," but he has written the part as a symbol of the expansive American spirit that has destroyed the world of gentility and graces in which Amanda Wingfield tries so desperately to live. If Jim occasionally comes across as crudely caricatured, like an American (like the American) in a British book or movie or play, it is largely because Mr. Williams has written him that way, and because Mr. Hancock has made him sprawl...
While a general shortage of housing for married students exists at Yale, the problem is most acute for married graduate students from Asia and Africa. Some housing is provided for married medical and divinity students...