Word: ultramodern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tradition in the Making. For years Director Chávez, a successful practitioner himself, would take not a peso for his love and services to the institute. (The law now insists on a nominal salary.) When the ultramodern building, with its walls of white concrete and glass, was opened, it could care for 12,000 patients annually. Dr. Chávez was soon after more money, got 5,000,000 pesos to double its capacity. Now the institute treats 24,000 heart sufferers each year, 1,272 as in-patients in its 150 beds (divided equally among men, women...
Last month, Webb moved his old gun collection, his $135 sports jackets, his portable typewriter and Dudley, his bassett hound, into a $100,000 ultramodern two-bar house, high in Beverly Hills' celebrity-studded Coldwater Canyon. Last week he had the house up for sale. In his intense and single-minded haste to go on conquering Hollywood, he has not even found time to use his swimming pool. "Jack," says Stanley Meyer, the protocol-conscious business manager of Webb's Mark VII Productions, "would live in one room with a cot and a movie projector...
...ultramodern operating setup was a dream come true, not only for Harvard-trained Dr. Taran, but for Mother Mary of Kevelaer and the 46 sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who run the Long Island hospital-sanatorium. When it was founded in 1937, in a rambling mansion and stables given to the nuns by Shipowner Carlos Munson (a Quaker), it was a home for child victims of heart disease, and little more...
...year-old patient lay in an up-to-date operating room in Lima, Peru, surrounded by sterile gadgets and the paraphernalia of modern anesthesia. At hand, to forestall infection, were ultramodern antibiotics. Flanking the patient were two of Peru's most distinguished surgeons, Drs. Francisco Grańa Reyes and Esteban Rocca. But their instruments were bronze chisels and saws made of obsidian (volcanic glass) which were 2,000 years old when Francisco Pizarro conquered Peru...
...Sonata No. 4 (Bernhard Abramowitsch; Music Library). A vintage 1948 work by a composer who made a worldwide splash with his opera, Jonny Spielt Auf, written in a kind of Teutonic honky-tonk style a quarter century ago. The sonata, sometimes using the twelve-tone technique, is full of ultramodern patterns, but they are served up in comparatively palatable form: there are moments of humor, drama and bewitchingly strange sounds. Pianist Abramowitsch plays it with skill and enthusiasm...