Word: cars
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Other diplomatic meetings have been held in railway cars-the signing of the World War I armistice in the Compiegne Forest, for instance, and the 1940 surrender of France, staged at the same spot and in the same car. But never has a meeting been held in a railway car straddling the border between two countries in the middle of a bridge 310 ft. above a churning river, and just downstream from one of the world's mightiest waterfalls...
...prevented if coaches and trainers use common sense and remember that active athletes must sweat in order to cool off and must quickly replace the fluid they lose. "Would the coaches operate their automobiles with half-full radiators?" asks Knochel. "The trouble is, the radiator in the car doesn't sweat. But people's radiators do, and they have to have their fluid volumes maintained to prevent overheating and destruction...
When a child's fingertip is sliced off or smashed in a car door, most doctors sew up the wound or attempt to reconstruct the digit. But the best treatment for such injuries may be none at all. Writing in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Dr. Cynthia Illingworth of the Children's Hospital in Sheffield, England, reports that until the child is age eleven or so, a fingertip that is not damaged below the first joint will often regenerate spontaneously if left alone. Thus instead of suturing up smashed or amputated fingertips, Dr. Illingworth and her colleagues merely...
...Government know that they want to buy additional U.S. grain in quantities that-if the sales were permitted-would be very inflationary. President Ford decided finally to permit removal of controls on oil prices, gambling that increases will be relatively modest, and General Motors announced boosts in car prices smaller than in the past two years, but still substantial. Details...
...consumers expecting to pay only 4.4% more for their new cars are in for a surprise. Optional features, such as air conditioning and power steering, will average 6% higher than last year, and GM models will generally carry less standard equipment. Many once standard items like tachometers, steel-belted radials and power brakes have been made optional-particularly on compacts and subcompacts-and the buyer will have to pay extra if he wants them. In effect, higher options prices will add another $62 to the final price of an average car, for an overall increase of 4.7%. GM Chairman Thomas...