Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty young Florida housewife who has suffered increasingly severe heart trouble since childhood reported proudly last week that she is now able to fix one meal a day, and hopes soon to go back to her office job. The secret of her progress is embedded in her heart. It is like a miniature bird cage. At the point where the aorta (the body's main artery) begins, surgeons have removed part of nature's valve, which was diseased, and replaced it with an ingenious steel-and-plastic gadget...
...York Times: "Corporation secrets are best discussed in the privacy of an Executive Suite at the Barclay." Last week the statement was open to doubt. In Philadelphia a Federal Grand Jury returned a second set of indictments against eight electrical-equipment makers, charging antitrust violations involving criminal conspiracy to fix prices, divide markets and rig bids (TIME, Feb. 29). One of the hotels where the executives from the firms involved met to fix their prices: the Barclay...
...Explained Corcoran: "I told Mr. Kuykendall, 'Mr. Symonds still wants the 7%, but if you will look at the procedural suggestion made in the closing argument, maybe it won't be necessary to face that problem now.' " The suggestion was for FPC to grant the permit, fix the rate later. That is what FPC did. Corcoran said Symonds criticized him for talking "too softly." Added Corcoran in an aggrieved tone: "I'm wondering if it isn't improper if a lawyer doesn't take care of his client up to the limits...
...even better: he has already filed 46 cases, is well on his way to 90 or more actions. Among the giants on Bicks's court docket: General Motors, for acquiring Euclid Road Machinery Co.; General Electric, Westinghouse and ten other companies, on charges of conspiring to fix prices in the electrical industry...
Lockheed will say nothing until the engineers are dead certain that they have pinpointed the cause of the crashes and have worked out a fix. But they are getting close, hope to have a verdict in ten days. The company has scheduled a meeting this week with representatives of the U.S. airlines that fly 115 Electras. Last week Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood R. Quesada flew out to a meeting with Lockheed Board Chairman Robert Gross, issued a statement saying that "we are satisfied that we are boring in on an area that is going to be definitive...