Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale's first three goals, scored by Johnny Griswold, Joe Upton, and John Kerry, were all untouchable blasts which the fast linemen got off after beating Harvard's fullbacks...
...Rochester researchers first discovered zinc's help to healing. The researchers were studying the recovery times of deliberately wounded lab rats, and no one could figure out why one cageful of rodents was healing noticeably faster than the others. Painstaking detective work finally uncovered a possible explanation: the fast-healing rats had been eating food contaminated with compounds of zinc. To check their suspicions, the researchers experimented with 600 rats and confirmed that the presence of zinc in the diet aided rat-tissue regrowth after injury...
Noting that fast-healing humans also had a high zinc content in their bodies, Air Force doctors began trying zinc on patients at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. They worked with men suffering from relatively common and painful pilonidal sinuses (which appear near the base of the spine), the removal of which leaves a cavernous wound. Six .men who had moderately large excisions and got only standard treatment took an average of 62 days for healing. Seven, with wound cavities averaging almost three times as large, healed in only 45 days. The only difference in treatment was that...
...fast-growing market for fiber-tipped pens, now dominated by Japanese imports, Scripto has just introduced a Dacron-tipped version called Scriptip, which it hopes will out strip its competitors by providing a greater ink supply and a finer, longer-lasting nib at a lower price (39? v. 49? for most others...
...somebody to yell a Victory cheer when his team has just fumbled the ball for the fifth time in a row? At one point,the score was 24-17, and it really looked as of "our boys" might have a fighting chance. So we did both victory cheers really fast, before the Jets had a chance to score any more...