Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully selected Georgians of Stalin's age and general physical make-up are forced to lead a life precisely patterned on his, eating the same meals, keeping the same hours, while a corps of doctors observe and test them with life-prolonging serums. Weltwoche does not explain how the worries of ttie most feared and powerful man on earth are simulated, or whether Stalin gets the serum too. Stalin, according to French Ambassador Louis Joxe, who saw him last August, looks like a robust, healthy...
...work was fine, but State failed to explain it to the Koreans; the U.S. thereby lost much of the credit...
After a severe injury or operation, the patient first burns up his own fat as a source of energy. (Dr. Moore's team has just reported that as many as 4,000 calories a day may thus be burned.) This goes far to explain what had long been known but little understood: why the patient seems to have no appetite or even need for food soon after an operation. A normally built man has enough fat (about 15% of his body weight) to tide him over most operations; a "soft," curvaceous woman may have...
...company counsel, who advised Avery to provoke the U.S. Government into carrying him out of his plant in 1944, thus getting the case into court-where Avery wanted to be. Three years ago it was Ball who prompted Avery to use the phrase "a very real conspiracy" to explain why he had lost so many of his top men. And at a meeting in 1950, when stockholders objected to Avery's iron-fisted rule, it was Ball who sprang to the defense of the boss. "We know each of us is under a test," said Ball. "There are weaknesses...
...personally. "You could have a basement full of water," said one Ward alumnus, "and not be able to do anything about it until you got Avery's name on a piece of paper. If you wanted to put up an awning, you'd have to explain it to him for half an hour; tell why you wanted it on this side of the building instead of some other place." Avery also put the lid on wages, and steadfastly refused to grant such incentives as the liberal pension and profit-sharing plans of Sears ("uneconomical" is Avery...