Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never Say Die" [Feb. 3]. You call the process of freezing "strange rites," but, as Jessica Mitford has ably pointed out, interment is the method that is eerie. Cryobiology is a young science, but the mass of individuals now planning on being frozen should give it a stimulating boost. Last year predictions ran that it would be 50 years before a mammalian brain would be successfully frozen, but one was successfully frozen and thawed that very year (Nature, Oct. 15, 1966). Now you are saying that success with a human organ lies in the distant future. How distant...
Under the new system, only publications that genuinely manage to boost sales are allocated more newsprint, which is perennially in short supply. For instance, Novy Mir Editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky last year received more pages for his crusading literary monthly, which keeps irritating party bosses with exposes of social and economic abuses. Even though (or perhaps because) he had been ousted from the Communist Party Central Committee for "revisionism," readership was going up. Mostly, the competitive pressure is causing the papers to shed some of their drabness. Headlines are boxed in color, the number of pictures has increased, the quality...
...strike, soared on full seats and heavy military charters. The strike did cost it a $12 million payment to rival TWA and the other four affected lines under a mutual aid pact, but profits nevertheless increased 61% to $84 million. Flying into 1967, Pan Am got a big boost last month when it finally won permission as the only nondomestic carrier to fly its international passengers across...
...yearlong rise in gasoline prices may make the current boost less defensible in the Administration's eye than the recent increases pushed through by copper, steel and aluminum producers. A fact to remember, however, is that even at the new levels motorists would be paying about the same for gasoline as they did ten years ago had not federal and local taxes, now an average 10½? a gallon, grown by 15% in that time...
...states; federal spending would increase from $35.5 million this year to $84 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1. But Johnson sees federal regulation as the most effective immediate antidote for pollution. His bill would compel fuel producers to register all additives such as tetraethyllead- used to boost gasoline octane count- with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare so that their potentially noxious effects could be studied. HEW would be given authority to designate industries that contribute heavily to pollution, and in each case would determine the maximum tolerable level of deleterious materials that they could generate...