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Hinkle, head of Cornell's Human Ecology Division, and seven other medical researchers reached this conclusion after studying the health histories of 270,000 male employees of the Bell Sys tem - a string of companies that extend from New England to California. Like many physicians, Hinkle believed that movement to higher and higher levels of executive responsibility increased the chances for heart trouble. But, says Hinkle, "the story did not come out that...
...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 stress targets because of the domestic and professional adjustments involved in the move - exhibited no more coronary troubles than those who had never been transferred...
...Studying Bell statistics for the reasons behind the difference, Hinkle and his research team found a link with education and, more important, family background. The figures showed that Bell's college-educated employees had a disabling-coronary-disease rate 30% lower than the company's noncollege workers. Behind the statistic there ap peared to be a significant difference in family health and diet patterns that persisted throughout the employees' adult hood. Most of the college men came from smaller, healthier families. They were slimmer, taller, smoked and ate less. Their fathers lived longer. The differences may have...
They laughed when an Illinois farmer reported that he had significantly increased his crop yield by serenading corn plants with Rhapsody in Blue. And few believed Indian Botanist T.C.N. Singh when he said that a shrill electric bell speeded the germination of seeds and that classical Indian violin and flute selections promoted crop growth. Or the Australian fruit farmer who swore that he had raised bigger and better bananas by bombarding them with a loud, constant bass note broad cast from loudspeakers set up among the trees...
Burst of Joy. The buying stampede began with Monday's 10 a.m. opening bell on the Big Board. Professionals and small investors alike grabbed at shares throughout the day. The exchange's new high-speed ticker ran 15 minutes late reporting floor transactions By closing, volume reached a record 17.73 million shares, toppling the old mark of 16.41 million shares set on Oct. 29, 1929, the Black Tuesday that triggered the Depression of the '30s. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks jumped 20.58 points, its biggest one-day gain m 41 years...