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...zero gravity actually makes a task harder, rather than easier, will probably force them to scale down astronaut spacewalk assignments on future missions. Says NASA's Dr. Charles Berry: "Men will be able to work, but I don't think we'll be working an eight-hour day outside in space...
Francis J. Keaty, president of the newly-formed Association said yesterday that some of the hospital's porters, maids and orderlies take home less than $45 per week. Many of the employees, Keaty said, must work two eight-hour shifts in order to take home a decent day's salary...
...twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...
...subsidies nor fare regulation. Taximen usually charge 250 a mile or $35 an hour for the hire of single-engine planes, 400 to 700 a mile or $75 to $120 per hour of flying time for twin-engine models. For busy men, the time saved makes the cost worthwhile. Fully one-fifth of the passengers on Jacksonville's Gateway Aviation are lawyers, who for $85 each can zip 170 miles to Tallahassee, the state capital, and back in 2 hr. 10 min. v. an eight-hour trip by auto. Many taximen provide sandwiches and drinks, sell flight insurance, even...
...Pigs episode touched the lives of the exiled. We all had a brother in the invasion, a cousin, friends, fathers or fiances. Some of my friends were killed in combat on the marshes, others died by suffocation inside a sealed truck in which hundreds were packed for an eight-hour trip to Havana. Others had a more cruel death as they drifted in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks. Some were fortunate enough to be sent to prison for 1½ years and, after suffering the most inhuman psychological tortures, to be reunited with whatever remained of their families...