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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Able and Baker.* Monkey Able, a greyish, 6-lb. rhesus, was a graduate of a school at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington. D.C., where she and her classmates were taught to press a lever when a red light flashed. If the lever went unpressed, the monkeys got electric shocks in their furry behinds. Monkey Able was also conditioned to being strapped into a capsule, to wearing a miniature helmet and tolerating noise, vibration and the indignities attendant to the attaching of instruments to her body...
...hold on to his pitches. He was 28 before he reached the majors with the New York Giants in 1952. Giant Manager Leo Durocher immediately made him a relief pitcher. "The knuckler can fool 'em for four or five innings," said Manager Durocher, "but Wilhelm hasn't got the hard stuff, to go nine...
...Giants gave up on Wilhelm after the 1956 season, when he temporarily lost the knack of getting men out in tight spots. His knuckler was missing the corners, and when he got behind the batters, Hoyt was forced to use a fast ball or slider, with disastrous results. "Hoyt began to worry and try different things, and the more he changed, the worse it got," says Wes Westrum, the Giants' catcher in those days...
Physician Hawley offered this explanation: nowadays, nearly everybody has insurance to cover the basic cost of surgery, and every insured patient is a paying patient. At the Manhattan dinner where Hawley spoke, Dr. David M. Heyman got in a plug for systems such as the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, of which he is honorary board chairman. Under its group practice, said Dr. Heyman, doctors receive no extra fees for operations-so "there's no incentive for unnecessary surgery...
...from birds in the air. American has had only one case-and it ended happily. Taking off from New York's Idlewild Airport, an American 707 on a training flight plowed through a flock of seagulls, drawing two or three into one engine. Compressors and guide veins got bent, but the plane continued its 4½-hour flight without any engine trouble. Unlike the postwar prop planes, the 707 has given the airlines no serious engine problems...