Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Responsive Enough. The transplanted heart has no connections with the brain, Cooley pointed out, and therefore cannot respond to nervous stimuli that, for example, make the normal heart beat faster when a person is excited. Yet although the transplanted heart is less sensitive, it is able to keep the recipient alive and is responsive enough to permit him a reasonable degree of activity. An artificial heart, Cooley suggested, need do no more. Artificial heart research, which will surely benefit from the knowledge gained by transplants, may in turn help to explain why the natural heart, with no connection...
...land taxes. Southfield, Mich., has just demonstrated that the idea works. Five years ago, the city was listed as a depressed area. Then it boosted the tax on land and cut the tax on buildings by reassessing them. In the resulting building spurt, Southfield has been constructing office space faster than neighboring Detroit, a city 30 times its size. Said Assessor G. Ted Gwartney: "All we had to do was throw off the shackles...
...prides itself on having the world's most efficient industry. If that is the case, why have auto manufacturers, long regarded as star performers, lately been recalling cars at a faster rate than they have been building them? Last week General Motors called back 1,100,000 vehicles-1965 and 1966 Pontiac cars and late-model Chevrolet and G.M.C. trucks, buses and highway tractors-because of possible defects in the braking systems. Only three weeks earlier, G.M. had recalled a record 4,900,000 vehicles, including 2,500,000 Chevrolets built between 1965 and 1968. Although less than...
...long domination of the global market for commercial aircraft. Seven out of ten of the transports now in operation, piston or jet, are U.S. built, and have earned billions of dollars in foreign exchange. But such dominance will continue only so long as U.S.-built ships are faster and more efficient than anyone else's. U.S. aviation was in this critical condition once before, when Britain's ill-fated Comet series beat U.S. jets to the skies by nine years. After the Comet tragically failed, the U.S. easily caught up with the British planemakers...
...became apparent that the 30-kilometer Championships did not have nearly as much glamour as the Boston Marathon. Crowds are sparse and extremely arrogant. They insult skinny participant, which is quite a full-time job since most marathoners are disturbingly skinny. They also scream for the men to run faster, not because they want them to do well, but because they want the runners to suffer...