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...compressible part inserted in the vagina, and a dial. Dr. Kegel tells the patient being tested to tighten her muscles. If the needle registers above 20 or 25 (the millimeters of mercury that the exerted pressure would support), the pubococcygeus is healthy; if the reading is no higher than five, the muscle is in poor shape. With the Perineometer Dr. Kegel's patients practice pubococcygeal contractions and note improvement by progressively higher readings on the dial. This treatment is quickly successful in 75% of cases, Kegel reports...
...only the first few of the 15 days of competition completed, the XVI Olympics, whether measured by tape or scale or stop watch, were already a success, and the performers had proved their intense devotion to the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius, or, for those lacking athletic scholarships, faster, higher, farther...
...biggest possible prize. It is enough for a young man of 24 to know that his achievements can mean something as long as Olympic games are held, as long as youngsters anywhere, from the steppes of Russia to the African veld, strive to run faster, throw farther, jump higher than anyone else in the world...
...Jones industrial average edging down to 472.56, nearly 50 points off the peak last April. The tip-off to Wall Street was the U.S. Treasury's action: it had to offer an interest rate of 3.043% to sell $1.6 billion worth of 90-day bills, a rate slightly higher than the Federal Reserve's 3% rediscount rate. Traditionally, when the Treasury rate climbs above the rediscount rate, it means another rediscount boost by the Federal Reserve. In fact, had it not been for possible upsets to business threatened by the Middle East crisis, most economists thought that money...
PULLMAN FARE HIKE of 7% starts Jan. 1 on railway sleepers if ICC approves. Pullman Inc. says raise will add $6,500,000 to annual revenue, offset higher costs...