Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conn, 58, is one of the nation's top authorities on a form of high blood pressure that used to be dumped into the catchall category of "cause unknown." Not until the early 1960s was this form found to be caused by an excess of the potent hormone aldosterone (TIME, March 15, 1963), produced by the adrenal glands, which bestride the kidneys. If either gland develops a tumor, it is likely to churn out aldosterone too generously. The victim of this "primary aldosteronism" has too little potassium in his system and usually too much sodium, an imbalance that leaves...
...chairman of Rammco Investment Corp., a Southern California land-investment firm that has shown a canny ability to pick farmland plots that later boom into building sites. Exuberant demand for choice land-which has helped send the price of housing sites in the U.S. up 15% annually during the 1960s-enables a land speculator to multiply his money in a hurry...
...adventure and excitement remains. In Victorian England, with its relative wealth and opportunity for the leisured, complacent life, the compulsion for adventure was far from stifled; rather, it flared forth in a golden age of English exploration and mountaineering. Similarly, but even more so, many Americans of the 1960s refuse to react to prosperity as though it were the smoke from the poppy seed, and instead feel it as the thorn that goads them toward the bold, dangerous and somehow immensely satisfying fundamentals of existence...
Available jobs are also on the rise because U.S. industrial productivity is not growing as fast as it did earlier in the 1960s. Productivity has been rising 3.2% annually for the past several years; the 1965 gain will be just below 3%. Why the slowdown? Increased demand has pushed factories into producing at 89% of their capacity, is forcing them to use older, less efficient machinery and less skilled workers. Shortages of skilled labor are continuing to crop up in many industries...
...last week, still intact physically-if not emotionally-were two more of the film's featured players, TV Comic (Treasure Hunt) Jan Murray and blonde Starlet Diana Millay. Diana is cast as a wilderness nurse, for there is no Jane nor love interest in Producer Weintraub's 1960s concept of the Edgar Rice Burroughs hero. "They like to think of their new Tarzan as 'the James Bond of the Jungle,'" she complains, "but Bond would have known what to do with a blonde on a moonlit night on a tropical river. Tarzan just cuddles...