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...development expenses, would cost about $1,200). Meanwhile, Hilton is demonstrating that the prosthesis is practical; he is learning how to pick up small objects, open cigarette packages and tie his own shoes. He is also learning to be careful, especially when handling delicate objects. A normal male grip exerts a force of about 25 Ibs. Hilton's electronically assisted grip strength is a formidable...
Hougan's world is a gloomy one indeed, one so firmly in the vice-like grip of something called the technical chreod (like his world, Hougan is driven to neologisms) that nothing anyone can do could have any possible effect on its numerous ills. We are all slaves of a drive for the perfection of pure technique that is strong enough to have become self-sustaining and unstoppable; we live in a world full of machines and agencies that run themselves toward no particular end. It is absolutely inevitable that at some point the morass of technique will break down...
...target at 263 ft. within twelve seconds. Marina Oswald testified that she had heard Oswald practicing the rifle's bolt action outside their Dallas home in 1963. From the Book Depository building, Oswald also had the benefit of resting his gun on a book carton and steadying his grip with an arm sling...
...voiced respect for Generalissimo Francisco Franco last week. Three-and-a-half weeks ago, Spain's frail, 82-year-old Caudillo suffered a heart attack that would probably have killed most men. Yet neither that nor a chain reaction of complications that followed broke the dictator's grip on life. Franco's physicians and the Spaniards who gathered outside the Pardo Palace to pray or wait had no doubts about the outcome of the autocrat's last battle. But all agreed that, in high Spanish style, he was waging a heroic fight...
...rest of the industrial world, the troubles are worse: not only has inflation been raging at rates generally higher than in the U.S., but recession still has an iron grip on most major economies. Despite the October jump, unemployment in the U.S. has come down from a peak of 9.2% in May, but it is still rising in Canada, Britain, Germany, France and most other European nations. In several, the jobless rolls are likely to go on expanding for another six months or so. In the 24 industrial countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...