Word: unlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Locked Out. Private hospitals are generally even more reluctant than the states to unlock doors, for fear of damaging incidents and lawsuits. Yet in San Francisco, at the opposite extreme in size from the giant state hospitals, a tiny (14-bed) unit at Stanford Hospital* applies the open-door system with outstanding success. "When we speak of patients as being 'locked up," says the psychiatrist in charge, Dr. Anthony J. Errichetti Jr., "what we really mean is 'locked out'-we are using lock and key to exclude them from society. When we used to put a patient...
...their sleeves, make a little hole in the machine (see cut), insert a wire into the works, and by careful manipulation "walk" the reels until they stop at the jackpot position. But since freshly drilled holes are too easily detected, other jackpotters have fashioned keys with which they can unlock machines and stop the reels by hand. A first-class crook can walk the reels, hit the jackpot in 30 seconds flat and, before the change girl appears, slip his small tools to an accomplice, who ambles away. Then he collects his money, goes off to make another strike...
...hybrid sorghum for feed-half the entire sorghum crop-although the hybrid is only five years old. This started hybridizers hunting for other genetic freaks with hereditary male sterility. Researcher Frank Eaton of die U.S. Agriculture Department, working at Texas A. & M., found a chemical key that may unlock all the closed doors. Eaton noted that a weed killer, lightly applied, sterilized the male stamens of cotton, left the more protected female pistil apparently unhurt. If this means what hybridizers hope it means, it may be the key to hybridizing all crops-and vastly increasing their yield...
...went, on into the afternoon: nine topflights brainstorming, creating, stumbling upon spontaneous, golden keys to unlock the city's pocketbook...
...Wenner-Gren carries out his grand scheme, it will pump new millions into British Columbia's growing economy. If he does not, other investors will sooner or later pour in the necessary millions to unlock the northland's treasure. No one mistakes the lessons of B.C.'s first century. It is only a hint of the possibilities for the next 100 years...