Word: technician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had happened? Explained an embarrassed Electricity Board technician: "There was a break in the neutral connection in the three-phase supply that became unbalanced." None the wiser, the citizens of Carlecotes presented the board with the biggest electrical bill in the village's history. "We'll repair or replace everything damaged," promised a harassed official...
...Miserable Years." Feiffer was born in The Bronx, and has never got over it. ("The place I grew up in didn't even have the dignity to be a slum.") His father held a variety of jobs, from dental technician to salesman; his mother was a fashion designer. Like his characters, Feiffer suffered many childhood frustrations. (''Echoes of my childhood keep creeping into my work. I'm sneaky-I hide behind my pictures.") In 1946 he got out of James Monroe High School to discover that he lacked half a credit to get into college...
Charles W. Medick, one of the nation's top table-tennis referees, smiles tolerantly when he hears the cry familiar to his trade: "Whatsa matter, you got no eyes?" Medick is blind, from an accident in infancy. But Medick, a 36-year-old Los Angeles X-ray darkroom technician, has been policing table-tennis players for a dozen years. "I'm sure I've made a bad call or two in my career," he concedes. "But I can't recall when...
When a San Diego physician asked a technician at General Dynamics' Convair Division to sharpen a big and costly type of hypodermic needle, he had no idea that the trail would lead into the human heart. But more Convair design specialists and engineers got interested in medical gadgeteering; *last week a notable result was announced. They had developed a new and sophisticated heart-lung machine...
Nothing could be done for Technician Kelley. He had received between 6,000 and 18,000 rem (roentgen equivalent man) of radiation, at least ten times the dose that is generally considered deadly. Nine hours after the accident, Kelley became coherent enough to explain that he mistook the blue flash for a short circuit in the stirrer switch. A day later he died. Dr. Thomas Shipman, head of the laboratory's health division, said that the radiation had done fatal damage to his central nervous system...