Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rest for Some. Treatments are as varied as the forms of disease. In glomerulonephritis, a low-protein, low-salt diet, sometimes with sweet syrups and fat emulsions added, is often recommended. So is bed rest. Cortisone-type hormones do little good. Penicillin is no cure, but may be used to prevent recurrences in susceptible patients. Nephrotic syndrome patients, by contrast, usually get considerable benefit from cortisone; they, too, frequently need a low-salt diet-but with plenty of protein. And for them, bed rest is less important...
Many kidney patients drag on for years with a partial but permanent loss of filtration efficiency, punctuated by occasional flare-ups of more severe failure. At such times, they need a special diet, with a little food several times a day, and not the hospital's usual three, widely spaced meals, said Dr. Becker. Ironically some of these patients are better off if they are not put to bed, but are kept on their feet...
Using techniques followed by aero space engineers to simulate the perform ance of the Gemini space capsule, technicians at St. Louis' McDonnell Automation Center fed an IBM 7094 computer a diet of data that included the col lege's projected curriculum, the expected line-up of courses for the students, the size of classrooms, labs, lecture halls and shops, the size of the faculty, and time patterns for classes. In less than 30 minutes, the computer produced a schedule that would keep the instructional areas in use for 80% of the college's 45-hour week...
...Diet last week approved far stiffer laws, including a kidnap penalty of three years to life, and the country's first kidnap-conspiracy rap (one month to two years). But if kidnapers give their victim a break, they will still get a break from the law: those who surrender and do not harm their victims will have their sentences halved. With time off for good behavior, a kidnaper sentenced to life may be sprung in seven years...
...explained to the world the phenomenon of phosphorescence and the function of the ductless glands, devised a nebular hypothesis to account for the origin of the universe. Metallurgist, physiologist and mathematician, he knew nine languages, and promoted fiscal reforms and liquor regulations as a member of Sweden's Diet...