Word: type
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Under its sleek veneer of progress-the tall new buildings, the bustling St. Johns River traffic, the tony seaside country clubs-Jacksonville is more akin in spirit to nearby cracker towns in south Georgia than to cosmopolitan southern Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering...
...sick even to cry, the tiny, four-week-old infant lay limply on its bed in a British hospital Tests of blood and pus samples, drawn from an inflamed abscess on the child's right hip, produced a chilling diagnosis: Staphylococcus aureus, of the dreaded "hospital type,"* which is resistant to penicillin and most antibiotics. With little hope of success, physicians administered massive doses of penicillin and streptomycin. Neither worked, and the child hovered near death. Finally, doctors tried an experimental drug, one so new that it still had no name, bore only a laboratory code number...
...confused with a penicillin-sensitive strain of Staphylococcus aureus (Phase Type 53-77) that caused an infection in Vice President Nixon's left knee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Until last week, no case of an adult-type heart attack, with destruction of part of the heart-wall muscle, had been reported in anybody under the age of twelve. Now two Montreal doctors de scribe the case of a baby boy whose electrocardiogram, at the age of only five hours, gave evidence of severe heart-muscle destruction (technically, "myocardial infarction"). The boy died when 18 hours old, and the autopsy showed two areas of infarction, one of which was so massive as to involve half the heart's lower left chamber...
...machine makers. It is the only U.S. company with scanners in commercial operation, already has 31 reading voraciously for U.S. industry. This week Farrington announced that five insurance companies have ordered optical scanners to solve their premium-billing paperwork problems. Farrington's scanners range from a simple, kindergarten type, which reads only numbers, to a sophisticated bookworm that can read whole pages at a time. They rent out on a three-year lease at $1,650 to $6,100 per month...