Word: technician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Urda I. Traenkle, a 24-year-old technician killed last January by an explosion at Harvard's Thorndike Lab in Boston City Hospital, has been commemorated by a scholarship fund in the Faculty of Medicine...
...ever go back. The Russians have strangled us." For older people, Dubcek's adventure provided a fresh breath of freedom that was too precious to give up. "You live 20 years in fear of your life, and then it gets better," observes a 50-year-old medical technician who fled to Paris. "You can never go back to what life was like before." Intellectuals face perhaps the most torturous choice. "We may not be arrested," as a writer in Vienna put it, "but what is physical freedom when you have to write what you are told? Politicians...
Dark Shadows also has a recorded repertory of 3,000 sound effects and a few tricks that go back to radio days. The werewolf calls are authentic lobo cries, but for the squeak of bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle. The bats themselves are plastic and wired for flight. Coffins, cakes of dry ice (for eerie ground fog) and quarts of stage blood litter the studio. To spook up the manor with cobwebs, the crew flings chunks of latex into an electric fan, which scatters them authentically over the walls...
...ElectroCardioAnalyzer. It is a miniaturized computer as well as a simplified electrocardiograph. By comparing a subject's graph with fixed standards that have been programmed into the machine beforehand, it can detect abnormal electrical activity in the heart. When it -does so, warning lights flash on, and the technician knows that this patient must be referred to the cardiologist...
...sufficient for basic screening. Since what is adjudged normal in an ECG varies with the subject's age, early models of the analyzer were set for use on only the age bracket of the volunteers being tested. Later models may be programmed for several age levels, which the technician can select by a simple dial...