Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more centralization than now exists; in some respects, to make it bearable as well as workable, it will require more decentralization. Achieving a balance between these two needs is perhaps the most important and difficult problem for the near future, reaching far beyond schools or other services to the heart of government. No American city has yet achieved the balance. New York has hardly given it a try. Describing his own organization's key role in helping to finance the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment, Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy acknowledged last week that "the problem was bigger and tougher...
...expected, Hammond told a heart-disease symposium at Albany Medical College last week, the death rates after age 40 are higher for both men and women if they smoke cigarettes, if they are overweight, if they have high blood pressure, and if they don't exercise much. This holds true for deaths from both heart attacks and strokes...
What Hammond had not expected to find was that the death rates from heart attacks and strokes were higher for both men and women if they regularly slept more than seven hours a night. Seven seemed to be the ideal number of sleep hours; there were only slightly higher than average death rates for people who got less sleep. But among those who slept eight hours, women under 50 had a 53% above normal death rate from heart attacks, and both men and women under 50 had increases of more than 40% in the death rate from strokes. With nine...
From the Greek. At Bootle, near Liverpool, Prime Minister Wilson opened a $37 million data-processing complex that is to be the heart of one of the most fully automated banking systems in the world. Called Giro-the word comes from the Greek gyros, meaning circle-the system will circulate funds within the country's huge post-office network. With a deposit of $12, anyone will be able to open a Giro account. An account holder can leave standing instructions to have his regular bills rent or mortgage installments, telephone and electric bills-paid automatically out of his account...
Died. Gerald L. Phillippe, 59, president (1961-63) and board chairman (1963-68) of General Electric Co.; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn. As G.E.'s comptroller in the 1950s, Phillippe cut costs to cope with foreign competition, and also simplified many of the company's procedures. So successful were his programs that he was jumped over five senior vice presidents to the top of the firm that today is the fourth largest in the U.S. (after General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford Motor...