Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rabid animals around the head and neck-from which the virus may reach the central nervous system before abdominal injections have time to build up protective antibody. Since 1954. these victims have been injected with antirabies serum from horses. This gives only short-lived, "passive" immunity, but it works fast. The trouble is that horse serum is almost as dangerous as the rabbit-brain product. Now, said Dr. Tierkel, veterinarians and others who have had a full course of vaccinations are being asked to take a booster shot of duck-egg vaccine. A month later, they donate a pint...
Targeting Missiles. That is the only joke on the Street about Control Data, whose fast growth and aggressive stance have made it a favorite glamour stock. Last month the firm made a 3-for-2 stock split, the second in its seven-year history, and announced that new orders for June, the latest month calculated, reached a record $61 million. Needing space for its lusty growth, which boosted sales to $100 million last year, Control Data last week settled into a new three-building headquarters in suburban Minneapolis, which replaces the converted paper warehouse in which it has operated since...
Control Data has acquired twelve small companies or divisions as their products or systems were needed, has also expanded to Canada and Australia, and to Europe, where the market for computers is growing twice as fast as in the U.S. But despite its spectacular growth, the firm tries to maintain the stimulating atmosphere that its founders sought. Ideas bubble up from below with such frequency, says Norris, that "there are usually more plans than we can afford to finance." In an industry overshadowed by one huge competitor, Control Data claims to be the only firm other than...
...Federal Power Com mission, have had "a revolutionary impact on our economy." The revolution started in World War II to thwart tanker-hunting U-boats; the Big Inch and the Little Inch, from Texas to the Atlantic Coast, were the first major lines. Since then, pipelines have grown so fast that they now transport more than 30% of all the energy used in the U.S. They have created a revolution >n home-heating and cooking, provided cheaper industrial power and, less happily, caused severe wrenches in existing coal and oil industries. Twenty-four million U.S. homes-twice as many...
...Right to Oppress. A standard lament of the left is that U.S. liberties are fast dwindling under the pressures of mass, conformist society. Roche, who has investigated early Americans, dissents. There was a greater diversity of communities in the past, he writes, but within the communities no diversity was tolerated. Wise Roman Catholics steered clear of Puritans, Puritans shunned Anglicans, and Mormons avoided everybody: "Colonial America was an open society dotted with closed enclaves, and one could settle in with his cobelievers in safety and comfort, and exercise the right of oppression...