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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Link with Education. Investigating 6,347 absences and deaths caused by heart disease, Hinkle and his colleagues found that workmen, foremen and clerical employees experienced more heart ailments and coronary deaths than managerial personnel at all age levels. In fact, the incidence of heart ailments decreased on each succeeding higher rung of the executive ladder. Supported by funds from the National Heart Institute, the study also showed that the most rapidly promoted men suffered no more - and usually less - heart dis ease than employees who remained at lower levels. Managers transferred from one Bell System company to another-considered prime...
Lumped loosely in the category of emergency care, such cases claim untold lives each year. But how can such tragedies happen in an age and a nation where severed limbs are restored, kidneys are transplanted, and "dead" hearts are restarted routinely in intensive-cardiac-care wards? Among the causes of the problem are obsolete equipment, understaffed and overcrowded hospitals, administrative ineptitude, poor judgment, and the nearly nation wide absence of an organized approach to the problem. Each of the 6,000 general hospitals in the U.S. should be at least morally bound to accept and treat any emergency case, regardless...
...principal tympanist, it was not surprising that he made extra use of such percussion esoterica as roto-toms (a set of small tuned drums), muted gongs, anvils and Chinese wind chimes. What was unusual and effective, however, was the relaxed, jazzy undercoating that showed that even an age of turmoil and anxiety can have fun. But Contextures mainly had to do with fierce tensions and dissonances in which various sections of the orchestra played frenetically against each other. "I suppose this is a belligerent work," says Kraft. "But that's where the social comment comes...
...dervish of energy and enthusiasm, has the widest background as a soloist, acts as spokesman and arbitrator of musical disagreements Violinist Bernard Eichen, 36, the newest member of the group with only one year's tenure, is a nonstop quipster who gave his first recital at age nine and joined Toscanini's NBC Symphony at 19. Violist John Graham, 31, a modern-music enthusiast and the quiet intellectual of the group, plans all of its programs. Cellist Bruce Rogers, 36, a missionary's son who was raised in Kenya, provides a solid foundation for the quartet...
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