Word: cords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oldsmobile introduced its racy, 375-h.p. Toronado, first U.S. car with front-wheel drive since the Cord phased out in 1937. Some foreign automakers, notably France's Citroën, also market front-wheel cars. According to Olds engineers, front-wheel drive offers more traction and stability than conventional rear drive; it also eliminates the hump on the floor (because the transmission and differential are up front). Other engineers contend that front-wheel cars tend to oversteer, and that the added weight forward causes greater wear on brakes. The Toronado, a two-door, six-passenger hardtop that is four...
...losing by 335,861 votes (while President Kennedy won the state by 22,091), after which he helped his former law partner Richard Hughes win the governorship in 1962; by his own hand (depressed by his estrangement from Second Wife Nina Underwood, he garroted himself with an electric-shaver cord); in Princeton...
...many premature and some full-term infants to shut down the flow of blood through their lungs. Some unborn infants may have had the reflex activated to compensate for an oxygen shortage caused by low blood pressure in the mother, or a constriction or partial separation of the umbilical cord. As a result, the babies are born with thousands of constricted arterioles that do not carry sufficient blood to the lung's air spaces where oxygen is picked up-a condition that leads to the formation of a glassy (hyaline) membrane covering the inside walls of the lungs...
Tethered to his Gemini space ship by a thin gold cord, astronaut Edward H. White II stopped into the void yesterday and became the first American to float alone in the hostile emptiness of space...
...subsequent preliminary meeting of ABC, Comsat, and Federal Communications Commission officials seemed to confirm the claim. But ABC would, of course, still enjoy an enormous economy with the new satellite, and at its annual meeting, also held last week, a stockholder offered Goldenson "congratulations on snapping the silver cord with A.T. & T." Not so fast. The shareholder had forgotten that ubiquitous Mother Bell has a dominant 29% piece of Comsat...