Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This type of heart disease is rare, the doctors note, where malnutrition and parasitic infestations cause anemia and keep the hematocrit scores down. It is common est among well-fed, "redblooded" peoples. Bleeding in moderation to cut the hematocrit score to a safe reading between 40% and 45%, the Tulane doctors suggest, may well be one answer...
...that such systems save fuel, give more fire power, make both points and plugs work indefinitely at top efficiency at any speed. An even more rewarding system produced by New Jersey's Motion Inc. includes a capacitor that is charged by the high-tension current that is normally fed directly from coil to spark plugs. The capacitor delivers a short hot spark even when a feeble battery is painfully trying to start a cold engine in zero weather...
...trouble with this attitude is that it assumes the infallibility of a few experts who, once fed the proper information, will mechanically arrive at the correct decision 100 per cent of the time. Another problem with the attitude is that it runs counter to most notions of democracy. Sealing the public off from the facts on which the government bases its decisions must necessarily create an atmosphere of public sluggishness, and an automatic assumption that the leader's decisions are unfailingly correct...
...Fed up with complaints about shins changed on bikes which were "obstructing the public way," Acting Chief Tierney ordered six police officers to move all bikes left on the sidewalks in front of the Harvard Coop and the Cambridge Trust. Bicycles locked to posts were cut loose, and the "Harvard kids' toys," as one policeman called them, were hauled in a truck to the Central Square station...
This remarkable finding, which runs directly counter to what every mother has ''known'' since babies were first fed a substitute for human breast milk, was reported last week by one of the most eminent of U.S. pediatricians, New York University's Dr. L. Emmett Holt Jr. Four years ago, Dr. John P. Gibson of Abilene, Texas, had come to a similar conclusion, from studying 150 normal, full-term babies. He got the idea from mothers who had forgotten to warm a bottle. Dr. Holt figured that he could put the idea to the acid test...