Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Salt Lake City's biggest department store put up its own 550-car garage (TIME, Dec. 6), sales climbed 18%. Milwaukee merchants got together to set up Downtown Parking Co. Inc. In residential neighborhoods, small lots and garages can ease the problem: Architect Richard Roth, planner of a...
¶ Instead of rating rheumatic heart disease as an automatic reason for terminating pregnancy, doctors should consider operating to widen the scarred mitral valve in the heart, four Philadelphia researchers suggest in the A.M.A. Journal. Of eleven women who have undergone the operation, nine have already had normal deliveries. Pregnancy...
No Barbed Wire. While preparations in the U.S. went on calmly, there was hurry and confusion in Geneva. U.N. staffers scurried out of the first and second floors of the 20-year-old Palais des Nations to make way for the carpenters of the Big Four. Technicians uncoiled miles of...
¶ New York City took one more step in its gradual abandonment of the policy of automatic promotions for public-school pupils no matter what their marks. Last week it announced that it would hold back 11,709 out of 448,000 elementary-school students-a jump of nearly 6...
Paris, Anyone? But in this bright picture there were plenty of dark spots. Many a dealer called the boom "profitless prosperity," as he cut his profit as low as $25 per car. New sales gimmicks blossomed every day. Miami's Colonial Pontiac Agency offered a weeklong, all-expense-paid...