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...Nobody knows how cells in an aged body differ from cells in a young one, nor can they detect much change in body fluids. "A ten-year-old child, looking at your face," confesses Professor Simms, "can tell more about how old you are than the best experts can tell from laboratory study of body tissues...
...Armstrong should know, for he has jumped as a medical experiment.) "Until one gets very close to the earth there is no sensation of falling. One feels as though he were simply suspended in space. As one gets close to the earth, however, and the eyes are able to detect the shortening of the distance between the body and the earth, the sensation of falling appears...
...press was quick to detect the new menace in such a rule. Said the New York Times: "In effect OPACS has been attempting to control prices by asking for voluntary reductions in profits." Said the Wall Street Journal: "Profits ... are not the business of Mr. Henderson." Leon remained philosophical. "The honeymoon is over," he told a Congressional committee. He prepared to set price ceilings for the whole auto industry when the new model year begins. His present powers (which, apart from his jawbone, depend on the vague and drastic commandeering powers of the President) may by then be supplemented...
Hoppy began to detect a change in undergraduates about 1931. He considered them irresponsible, purposeless, prone to self-pity. Said he: "One frequently gets the impression of a hitchhiking generation." He assailed the New Deal for its effect "on the imagination and aspiration of youth," told a graduating class: "No real friend of yours could wish that you should never face misfortune. ... It is not so that vigor of mind or strength of character is developed...
...rarely used chest X-rays in examining recruits. This mistake cost taxpayers one billion dollars for the care of tuberculous veterans. But the Army is slow to learn. Said Surgeon General Thomas Parran last week: "Only in a few fortunate localities, typically the large cities, are X-rays to detect tuberculosis included in the examination...