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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auricular fibrillation, when the heart's upper chambers twitch irregularly and contract too rapidly, is frightening to victims: in brief attacks it may cause a "heart in the mouth" feeling and palpitations; over longer periods it can lead to heart failure. It is also difficult to diagnose because early attacks often pass before a doctor can get there. A unique study of 113 men and women of five generations in one family-compiled by Dr. William L. Gould of Albany, N.Y. and reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine-shows that in an occasional case fibrillation neither causes disability...
...tests would therefore appear to be self-policing,"writes Teller. "Actually, a nuclear test is easily noticed only if it is performed in the most obvious manner. There can be no doubt that if a nation wants to carry out tests in secrecy, observation will become difficult and uncertain. In the contest between the bootlegger and the police, the bootlegger has a great advantage...
...very little visible preparation," he warns: "Modern war-making potential depends to an increasing extent on highly specialized weapons. Some of the most essential of these weapons can be hidden with relative ease. Nuclear explosives and long-range rockets are two outstanding examples. Thus surveillance becomes more and more difficult. In addition, scientific and technical developments have produced and will produce unexpected types of weapons. How shall one check whether such weapons exist when the person who does the checking does not even know what he is looking for? We have most correctly emphasized that no disarmament scheme is acceptable...
...even frozen food; what makes it hot is that, somewhere in the course of its travels, it has been handled by a company that is nonunion or is having union trouble. By forcing trucking firms to contract not to handle hot cargoes, the Teamsters make it more difficult for other truckers to hold out against Teamster pressure...
...acting and a Continental air of high twaddle-one moment for their value as drama, another for what is the outlines of a joke. Since the chief character in Capek's tale of a strange, century-old lawsuit is a grandiloquent opa singer, tasseled flimflam is never very difficult. Since the opera singer is curiously omniscient about the past and is forever flinging forth, with a veiled countenance, a Who-am-I?, there is a nice audience guessing game in the making...