Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precarious. The Politburo averages 66 years of age, the Central Committee more than 60. Says Columbia University Professor A. Doak Barnett, a leading China expert: "This means that one can say, with actuarial certainty, that before very long virtually the entire top-leadership group will disappear during a relatively brief period, with results that will be felt at every level of the country." The leadership's ideas are also aging. Practically all of the top men are first-stage revolutionaries who made the Long March, the retreat from Chiang Kai-shek's armies for 6,000 miles from...
...were dismayed at the immediate effect of the announcement on the sensitive stock market and were worried that press reports had conveyed a false impression that some plants were shutting down altogether. So G.M. put out the word that all plants would resume work last Monday-setting off a brief market rally-only to disclose later that the cutbacks would be extended as the month wore on. That sent the market tumbling 15 points in one day last week, the worst drop since the assassination of President Kennedy...
...medicine, both the scene and the sentiment are badly out of date. The child would be in an oxygen tent in a hospital, festooned with tubes, watched over by bustling nurses or electronic monitors, banished from her parents (visiting hours, 9-11 a.m.), and lucky to get a brief visit from the doctor once or twice a day. Instead of Old Doc's bedside manner, the modern physician depends on a panoply of new skills, drugs and facilities that save many a patient his predecessor would have lost. The father image has been supplanted by the skilled technician whose...
...opening line. Somehow this worked, and King began earning as much as $2,000 a week with a stand-up routine of one-liners like, "We were so poor we lived below the candy store." Later, he played up to London, even got to meet the Queen. Their brief exchange, since widely publicized, may be apocryphal. She: "How do you do, Mr. King?" He: "How do you do, Mrs. Queen...
...with a patient supine in a doctor's office, shows what is supposed to be normal for those conditions: when the auricles contract there is a small upthrust called the P wave; this is quickly followed by a sharply spiking QRS wave as the ventricles contract; after a brief rest, there is a gently rising T wave before the ventricles get a fresh electric charge (see diagrams). What happens to the normal healthy man's heart when he gets up off the couch and goes about his daily activities...