Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...submit to painstaking, yearly physical examinations. The idea: to see if the onset of ailments in general could be accurately forecast by physiological measurements, i.e., weight, blood pressure, electrocardiogram, cholesterol count. So far, among other diseases, 27 of the businessmen have suffered heart attacks, 16 of them fatal. The common element in 18 of the cases was high (240-360) cholesterol levels. Moreover, it was the only significant common element. The electrocardiograph, says Keys, "doesn't hurt anybody and looks impressive in a doctor's office," but it is a poor predictor of coronary disease...
...test pilots put the plane through 100 hours of landings, take-offs and dives. In the most severe test, an engine mount was deliberately weakened to test the margin of safety. The pilots, wearing parachutes, put the plane into a 418-mile-an-hour power dive, but the fatal vibration never showed...
...shoes. The transaction, he said, was "completely fair: they're like the shoes Charlie Chaplin used to wear." "A Beheaded Mule." Guignard owes his life-and much of his present success -to a dedicated physician named Santiago Americano Freire, who nursed him back to health from a nearly fatal case of the DTs. Dr. Americano got his patient a state pension of $100 a month, arranged most of his exhibitions, which in one year alone sold more than 100 paintings...
Three or Less. As the season went on, the A.F.L. developed a remarkable balance among its eight teams, thereby avoided the fatal flaw that killed the All-America Football Conference (1946-49), which was dominated to the point of boredom by the Cleveland Browns.-Even so, the A.F.L. averaged crowds of only 16,680, including a goodly number of free admissions (average N.F.L. crowd: 40,000). One bright spot in A.F.L. finances was the league's package TV deal with ABC, which doled out about $200,000 to each team-more, on average, than N.F.L. teams were able...
Borne by the Wind. Though foot-and-mouth disease is rarely fatal-most animals recover after two or three weeks of painful blisters on the hoof, tongue and inside of the mouth-it strikes fiercely at dairy cattle, sharply reducing their milk production and afflicting them with sterility, heart trouble and chronic lameness. Produced by a virus, the disease is rampantly contagious, can be carried by humans (who very rarely contract it), birds, wild animals, frozen meat and even the wind. To combat its dread effects, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture has adopted a Draconian policy: the slaughter...