Word: technician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visiting doctor at the A.M.A. meeting had just had a little blood drawn from his arm. He watched while a technician dropped the specimen into the machine. Within a minute, he saw pastel-colored samples of his diluted serum being pumped through a dozen spaghetti-thin plastic tubes. Lights began to flash on and off, and a mechanical pen started to trace a red line on a chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then...
Cheaper by the Dozen. Standard tests for single blood factors generally cost a patient from $2 to $5; half a dozen tests may cost a package price of $15 or so. The old-fashioned process is also costly in technicians' time, while doctor and patient wait hours or days for the results. Dr. Albert L. Chasson told a Technicon symposium last week in Manhattan that the SMA-12, which he operates at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., is testing 10,000 blood samples a year at a price to the patient of $9 for the dozen chemical determinations. Only...
Walter Palmer, a 31-year-old medical technician, knows most of the men who frequent the tavern. When Palmer walked in one Saturday in August, a reporter waiting for him across the street could see, through the doorways, the reception he got. A handful of men rushed over and surrounded him with talk and laughter. Others took their beers with them and listened...
Another effective technique in military schools is to go from the concrete to the abstract, rather than putting theory ahead of practice, as most civilian schools do. Today's radio technician, for example, learns to spot a malfunction before he learns Ohm's law. Trainees are also allowed to progress at their own pace, often working alone with programmed textbooks. Where classroom teaching is used, service schools keep the student-teacher ratio low, take full advantage of military discipline and of the sense of immediacy that training for war gives...
Still, does lack of suspense matter? Hitchcock is more than a suspense-machine and a technician; his films reflect the work of a mature artist and contain great thematic depth and consistency. Using his familiar hero, the ordinary man plunged unexpectedly into a nightmarish world of melodrama, Hitchcock will allow the nightmare to bring about changes in his heroes: thematically, North by Northwest is about the redemption of a useless individual, The Man Who Knew Too Much about the emergence of a husband's desire to dominate his wife...