Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-known industrial consultant with more commissions and clients (among them: Western Electric, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar Tractor) than he can possibly handle. "I'm sort of an industrial 'Dear Abby,' " he says. "They come to me only when there's a mess." One such distress call came from Western Electric in Kansas City, which was having trouble with a certain production line. Working with the staff engineers, Tichauer evolved a pair of pliers with a 30° bend in the handle. As a result of this consideration for the human wrist, which tires quickly when awkwardly...
...study suggest that it was badly designed. But bits and pieces of the findings have been carefully leaked to the press by anti-Pill crusaders. The essence: among women on the Pill, Dubrow and Melamed found twice as many cases of cell changes as among women using diaphragms. They call these changes "carcinoma in situ" (literally "cancer in place," as distinct from cancer that has spread). This condition is also known as "carcinoma, stage zero," and as a "precancerous condition," although it does not always lead to cancer. What is not clear is whether these women had any greater incidence...
...Physicians by Dr. Ann Lawrence, a hormone specialist at the University of Chicago. She would not, she said, prescribe it for women with a family history of breast or cervical cancer, or the likelihood of clotting or circulatory problems, or diabetes. "I am one of what I would call the concerned physicians, simply pleading that the drug be used with a certain circumspection," said Dr. Lawrence. "But I wouldn't even try to deny that the Pill has been ? boon to millions of women." For all but the most fanatical opponents or proponents of the Pill, Dr. Lawrence...
...clever ones call it "instant nostalgia," but others insist that it's just junk. The quest for the artifacts of yesteryear, which has been indulged in by many Americans for years, has now reached epidemic proportions. Behold! A hot-air grate, raised on a walnut stand, becomes "sculpture." A chamber pot leaves its place under the bed and appears-lo!-as a soup tureen. Fortunate is the man who inherits a 1912 Corona typewriter or an Atwater-Kent radio in plywood Gothic style. They are also lucky who have-squirreled away somewhere-cast-iron toys, lead molds, bubble...
Better Feedback. Jack Eckerd, who opened his 113th store last week in Tampa, still likes to call his chain "the family drugstore." He sends every one of his 2,600 employees a personal birthday card, welcomes their suggestions and personally answers every one. To get "better feedback" from his pharmacists and counter clerks, he logs 30,000 miles a year at the wheel of his white Porsche roadster, visiting his stores. Every written complaint from a customer also gets a personal reply. "Nine times out of ten I can't help them," Eckerd admits, "but at least they know...