Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cardiologists taking ECGs of youngsters in Kansas City, Kans., schools during energetic exercise were baffled by electrodes' washing off in the kids' sweat. The remedy: a spray-on, stay-on conductive electrode cement, developed by NASA for test pilots...
...first move was to encourage pri vate foreign investment in India's des perately inadequate fertilizer industry (TIME, May 27). Then the government removed controls on eleven basic indus tries, including cement, iron and steel forging, and timber products. Two weeks ago, the rupee was devalued,* to combat inflation, shelter domestic manufactures against foreign competition, and make exports more salable in world markets. The Finance Ministry an nounced that it was working on an import-liberalization plan...
...decisions. Yet what they hear from the pulpit on Sunday seldom seems relevant to the office problems they face on Monday. "In the natural cycle of life - birth, marriage, death -the church is doing a pretty good job," says Worth Loomis, vice president of Cleveland's Medusa Portland Cement Co. "But it is nonexistent when decisions are being made in man's line of work." Applying Christianity to the decision-making process in offices and factories is the goal of a significant new form of experimental ministry in the U.S.: the industrial missions...
...nuns rise from their pallets to make their first obeisance, a portly, 55-year-old nun named Thich Nu Thanh Quang appeared in front of the Dieu De Pagoda in South Viet Nam's ancient capital of Hue. Removing her wooden-soled sandals, she sat down on the cement. While a Buddhist photographer took pictures, fellow Buddhists reverently emptied the contents of an American five-gallon jerrican of gasoline over her. She struck a safety match, and flames roared 20 feet into the air, until only her two out stretched hands were visible...
...backed by tanks and a squadron of armored personnel carriers, each armed with a .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, ringed the rebel command post, the faded yellow-stucco Tinh Hoi Buddhist pagoda. Six blocks away, the foreign press, mostly American, was taking a breather on the cement terrace of the Press Center overlooking the Danang River...