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Roiling Killer. Nearly every summer the Chena, which snakes through Fairbanks running south to join the Tanana, leaps toward flood stage as winter snows melt in the mountains. But this time, fed by the abnormally heavy rain fall, which in turn washed down summer snow from the mountains, the Chena became a roiling killer...
With the balloon in place, the ECG signals were fed into a relay to regulate the pump's timing. When the patient's left ventricle contracted naturally, it sent a modest amount of blood into the aorta, but under insufficient pressure. A fraction of a second later, when her aortic valve had closed, the ECG signal made the pump fill the balloon with helium. This forced the blood in the aorta not only up and down, but also back to the roots of the coronary arteries, thus increasing the oxygen supply to the heart muscle. Meanwhile the ventricle...
...world, now deposed and appealing a conviction for draft-dodging; and Belinda Boyd, 17, salesgirl in a Chicago Black Muslim bakery whom he has been dating for a year; he for the second time (his first marriage, to Model Sonji Roi, 27, lasted only eleven months before she got fed up with Muslim taboos); in a Baptist ceremony with additional Muslim prayers in Clay's five-room bungalow on Chicago's South Side...
...authorized the Fed action, Chairman William McChesney Martin, has recently stated that the "main need of the economy" is prompt action by Congress on the Administration's tax plan. Because there is always considerable opposition in Congress against such unpopular tax proposals, it is one that much be hard pushed. Otherwise, the Fed will have to depend on its own monetary solutions. No doubt Congress will reduce the 10 per cent figure to six or eight per cent before voting on it; even at 10 per cent it is no panacea: the tax hike will not eliminate the deficit...
...Fed in December 1965 and 1966, in the absence of a major tax increase by the Administration, which took steps to increase interest rates and make money more difficult to borrow in order to reduce inflationary pressures. The result was the tightest credit situation in the U.S. in 40 years; the housing industry was particularly hard hit by the absence of mortgage money. This approach hurt the sections of society which were least able to bear it economically: small businessmen, farmers, and homebuyers...