Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head-to-head campaign against Chile's powerful, Communist-dominated leftists, Frei (pronounced Fray) was swept into office with 54% of the vote, the greatest plurality in Chilean history. He won partly because of his own magnetism, partly because of his ambitious ideas to cure Chile's many economic and social ills. Yet in office he has been stymied by a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats control only 24 of 147 Assembly seats and nine of 45 seats in the Senate. His opponents in six other parties have blocked him to the point where...
...scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto wrecker gets for his scrap has fallen to around $10 a car, with the result that many wreckers have allowed car carcasses to pile up, in hopes of a rise in the market. One hopeful cure for this national eyesore was proposed this month by Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, who announced that the Bureau of Mines has developed a new process that uses scrapped autos to upgrade nonmagnetic iron ore and make it suitable for steelmaking...
...preventive or cure is in sight, despite a great deal of work and even more folklore. As people grow older they naturally tend to have fewer colds -and therefore, says Andrewes, they tend to find "proof" that their own pet precautions really work. Useful vaccines may eventually be developed, but the difficulty is that there are too many cold viruses to put them all in one vaccine. What is needed is something like the influenza vaccine, a combination of the strains known to be prevalent at a given place and time. For the present, even that type cold vaccine...
...legs to the trunk. An all-around girdle is not so likely to have this effect, even if tight, because blood and lymph find alternate return channels on the inner side of the thighs. Once the "dependent edema" caused by tight panty girdles has been diagnosed, the prescription for cure is simple and straightforward: throw away the girdle...
...aerosol can to compete with Gillette's Right Guard. Schwartz has about ten products in the secret stage of development, but professes disappointment that his scientists have failed to devise the perfect product. "After all," he smiles, "we still don't have a pill to cure death or cussedness." He has, however, made a start on the latter: one of his major prescription drugs contains a tranquilizing agent...