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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ride was to find out how the body reacts to prolonged periods of weightlessness, a question that has particularly troubled Soviet space doctors. In fact, it was the Russians who first showed that orbiting cosmonauts lose calcium from their bones during longer flights. Last week the Russians reported a hitherto unknown physiological problem apparently attributable to zero gravity. After only 24 hours in space, both cosmonauts suffered a deterioration in vision; their eye muscles coordinated poorly, and they had difficulty perceiving colors...
...benefits of the plan would spread to middle-class workers in two ways. First, Kelso estimates, the funds for capital investment through increased stock sales would support economic expansion at hitherto undreamed-of rates of perhaps 15% or 20% a year, creating a great demand for labor. Second, companies would be tempted to adopt Kelso's plan voluntarily, partly because of a quirk in tax laws. For example, if Beneficial Paper Co., with 1,000 employees, wanted $20 million to build a factory, it would issue $20 million worth of new common stock. An employee-owned trust...
...Wilson's greatest achievement," says one Laborite, "has been to allay the suspicions about the party of those voters in the middle. Hitherto they had regarded Labor as too strident and shrill." Some critics complain Labor has all but abandoned its old idealism and has adopted a more conservative approach to government. As Labor M.P. Chris topher Mayhew writes in his book, Party Games: "The older and the younger generation of natural leftists have, in fact, lost hope in the Labor Party. The older generation feels that much of our purpose has been fulfilled; the younger generation feels that...
This week, when Volpe presents the Highway Act of 1970 to the House Public Works Committee, he plans to go even farther. He proposes to open the hitherto untouchable-indeed, almost sacrosanct-Federal Highway Trust Fund to purposes other than building roads. By so doing, Volpe will antagonize the highway lobby, a powerful amalgam of contractors, oilmen, billboard companies, automakers and others. The fight of his political life appears imminent...
...Female (1953), were the first serious attempts to analyze quantitatively the variety and nature of "orgasmic encounters." Kinsey's data were flawed by the narrow range of his interviewed sampling and by his determinedly mechanistic approach to the subject of sex. Nonetheless, his research legitimized the study of a hitherto taboo subject. Says Masters: "He opened the door. We wanted to kick it all the way open...