Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crawford sang a half dozen Hungarian folk-songs in the richly colored arrangements made by Bartok in 1929. Most of these were melancholy in subject and in treatment; and she captured their moods admirably. She did a group of five Webern songs, dating from 1909-1917. Webern had not yet evolved the highly atomized style that has, for good or (probably) bad, made him the No.1 idol of the young fry among today's composers. With the exception of the moving "Kahl reckt der Baum" (to words of Stephan George), these songs did not seem worth writing down...
Soon a full-fledged counterfeiting plant was set up in isolated Block 19 of Sachen-hausen concentration camp under the supervision of SS Officer Bernhard Kriiger. His team of some 160 inmates, mostly Jews once employed in printing and banking, got special rations and good treatment. By early 1943 the Sachenhausen presses were turning out 250,000 bogus British notes each month...
...doctor by code number. A couple of questions enable the doctor to rule out two, and he has his diagnosis. But there are several ways of treating this disease, none 100% effective and all with some risk. The physician punches more buttons, lets the computer decide mathematically which treatment has the best chance of success with the least risk. Resorting at last to the historically illegible penmanship of his profession, he writes a prescription...
...medicine. At System,Development Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., an eleven-man team under Engineer Charles J. Roach, 38, has figured after a half-year study that no fewer than six areas invite automation. Of greatest direct interest to the patient: taking and "retrieval" of case histories; diagnosis and treatment; automated control of a medical procedure, e.g., anesthesia during an operation...
System Development engineers have already teamed with the Veterans Administration to compare the effects of various treatments on patients with a form of heart disease. Physicians at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital are using IBM computers to sift mountains of data on blood diseases, and getting answers that may suggest changes in treatment...