Word: cardiacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Gunsmoke came along to stun the child mind, there must have been a bad moment in the youth of every American now in the cardiac bracket when he realized that Buffalo Bill was a bit of a fraud. He simply could not have done all the heroic things that he claimed to have done. Today's child will probably be surprised to learn that Buffalo Bill was not a phony-or just a legend like Paul Bunyan -but a real man, and an intelligent and able one at that...
...means that he must often buy a stock, whatever its price and prospects, when the majority of investors want to sell, thus keep it from dropping too much. He must also sell stocks when the majority wants to buy, thus keep stocks from rising too fast. In the great "Cardiac Break" on Sept. 26, 1955, after President Eisenhower's attack, Coleman and the other 350 New York Exchange specialists laid out about $100 million in one day for stocks that panicky investors dumped on the market. The specialists had no assurance prices would not keep falling until their fortunes...
...rallies that he can profit by. He can buy a stock one minute and sell it for a half-point profit the next. He often is "long" (buying a stock for a rise) in one stock while "short" (selling for a fall) in another. Coleman actually profited in the Cardiac Break, just as he did in the market's crash in 1929. "We were both long and short. To survive...
...Rest and inactivity, once a cardiac lesion has healed, do not prolong life," say Drs. Marvin C. Becker and Jerome G. Kaufman of Newark's Beth Israel Hospital and Rutgers University's Wayne Vasey. In Circulation, published by the American Heart Association, they condemn too much rest as likely to lead to "physical and emotional incapacity." Physicians and family may be as much to blame as the heart patients themselves for fostering idleness. To rehabilitate a patient after an attack, the researchers suggest, "we must accept the philosophy that work is a normal part of living, and important...