Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addicted nurse steals morphine from her patients. A surgeon carelessly ties off the wrong artery in a simple operation; gangrene sets in and the patient not only loses her leg but is charged $3,000 in hospitalization and extra surgery charges resulting from the surgeon's error...
...Lady seems to have met a long-felt need. In its first three days on the shelves, 5,100 of the clocks were sold across the country. The Lady is, of course, subject to the dangers of error inherent in the rhythm method. And it relies on the dependability of the information fed into it. Physicians warn potential buyers that they who are not sure of their shortest and longest menstrual cycles should keep careful records for at least a year before going by the clock...
...bill after considerable debate-and possibly some softening amendments. To no one's surprise, Carlos Lacerda, the mercurial Guanabara (Rio) Governor who has been attacking the government for just about everything (TIME, June 11), denounced the bill as "bad, narrow, hypocritical, juridically wrong, politically wrong, morally wrong-another error of the revolution." Equally unhappy is the tight little group of army officers who call themselves the linha dura (the hard line) and are opposed to any elections. One of their leaders, Colonel Osnelli Martinelli, 43, publicly denounced Castello Branco for betraying the revolution-and found himself slapped into...
...deficit of $3.8 billion, $2.5 billion below January estimates and the smallest deficit since 1960. It also pleased-and puzzled-Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and caused the Treasury to begin a re-examination of its entire estimating procedure. Says Fowler: "If there had to be that big an error, I'd much rather have it on the plus side than on the deficit side." Where on earth did the extra money come from...
...Treasury figured that the 1964 tax reduction would cost it $300 million more than it actually did, and this error, too, contributed extra income. Help also came from the computers: mindful that the Internal Revenue Service is checking a growing number of tax returns at its eight computing centers (it will eventually check all of them), taxpayers have become more scrupulous in reporting their income. This enforced honesty added $200-$300 million more to the harvest...