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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complicated, some drugs increase the potency of enzyme activity. This leads to the bizarre situation in which a heart patient needs more of the anticlotting coumarin drugs if he is also taking barbiturates to allay his anxiety. The "barbies" hasten the breakdown of coumarin, and they have the same effect on some antiepilepsy and antifungal drugs...
...discharge" electrode, a needlepointed piece of metal that carries so high an electrical potential that it sprays the surrounding space with a supply of positive ions. Picked up by the passing ash as it is boosted along by the hot gas, those ions move down the tube creating, in effect, an electric current. The electrical resistance that develops is overcome by the energy of the moving gas, and a collector electrode picks the positive ions off the fly ash at the end of the tube. The electrical circuit is completed when ions flow from the collector electrode, down a transmission...
...among other Florida prisoners released when their sentences expired normally. Hindsight suggests a possible reason: those who applied for release under the Gideon ruling ranked surprisingly higher in mental and physical health than the rest of Florida's prison population. As an ironic result, Gideon's adverse effect has been not on society but on the prison system itself. The exodus has created a shortage of inmates at Florida's 36 road-gang camps, forcing officials to man the camps with unreliable prisoners who had previously been confined in regular cells. As a result, the post-Gideon...
...other policies, Gaylord A. Freeman Jr., vice chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago, criticizes the guideline policy because "it's not good substituting the rule of man for the rule of law." Adds Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II, usually a Johnson supporter: "In effect, we are moving toward a kind of informal and very spotty price and wage control...
...copter is the rotor, which enables it to take off and land on a dime, hover, fly in any direction, land on a dead engine. Spinning, a rotor not only tends to whirl the body of the machine in the opposite direction but makes the whole craft in effect a gyroscope resisting any movement from its original position. To keep copters from toppling over like drunken ducks, manufacturers hinged the rotor blades, killed the gyroscope effect with a cumbersome complex of knuckles and joints so as to free the rotor from its housing. This month Hughes Tool will begin delivering...