Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office is self-respecting. The deeper the pile, the worse the shock-particularly if the material has a high synthetic fiber content, which gives a carpet outstanding durability but equally outstanding shock qualities. Next comes wool, with cotton at the bottom of the shock list. A com pounding factor is the increasing prevalence of metal desks, typing tables and wall trimmings, which are brisk conductors of any static charges that anybody can scuff up. Driest days are the worst. When the humidity falls below 20%, executives view every steel-framed desk chair as a potential hot seat, and handshakes...
Genetic Lottery. Classical hemophilia, known since ancient times, is caused by a severe shortage of clotting Factor VIII. This disease, which afflicted a dozen descendants of Queen Victoria, results from a defect in a recessive gene carried on the x (female) chromosome. If a hemophilic man marries a normal woman, all their sons are normal but all their daughters are carriers. If a carrier woman marries a normal man (see diagram), each son has a fifty-fifty chance of being a victim and each daughter has a fifty-fifty chance of being a carrier. No one can predict whether...
Classical hemophilia has now been renamed hemophilia A, because in 1952 a boy in England was found to be suffering from what had seemed to be the same disease, but his trouble was actually caused by lack of clotting Factor IX. This affliction is now called hemophilia B. It is transmitted the same way as hemophilia A, but the two diseases can be distinguished by the fact that blood from a hemophilia A victim, which contains Factor IX, will clot blood from a hemophilia B victim. A hemophilia B's blood, with its Factor VIII, will make...
...progress is advancing from the lab to the bedside. Factor VIII is now being extracted from human plasma and concentrated about 30 times. It is given by intravenous drip to victims of hemophilia A and von Willebrand's disease when they have crises of massive bleeding. Except in such emergencies, the usual treatment for all the clotting disorders remains a transfusion of fresh whole blood or plasma-not to replace blood that the patient has lost, but to supply the missing clotting factor and thus keep him from losing more...
Friendly New Man. One crucial factor in the year-end attitude toward 1964 is the confidence that businessmen seem to have in the new man in the White House. So far, President Johnson has won a reception from businessmen that is cordial beyond anything lately experienced by a Democratic President. In homey speeches to them at White House meetings and in personal phone calls to such executives as A. T. & T. Chairman Frederick R. Kappel and New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston, Johnson has appeared a friendly, conservative Chief Executive who understands business. It is not unusual to hear...