Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly before the Alianza para el Progreso was proclaimed in 1961, Thomas C. Mann, the U.S. State Department's ranking expert on Latin America, glumly compared the area to "a pile of sugar being eaten away by a fire hose." Much of the erosion has since been halted. The Alianza has made considerable progress in developing economies, while Castro has been ex posed as a bungling adventurer. The Brazilian revolution ended the drift to Communism under a feckless leftist President; Chile averted the same fate in a head-to-head election in which the Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei...
Muscles or Batteries. All artificial hearts or half-hearts so far have relied on an external power source almost as bulky as a washing machine and infinitely more complex and delicate. The patient has to stay in bed, hooked up to this pulsating pump by an air hose passing through a hole in his chest. For a man with an artificial heart to get up from his bed and walk, let alone work, the power supply must be inside him. It may be electrical, depending on the long-lived, high-performance mercury batteries now being perfected for cardiac pacemakers (TIME...
...commercial airlines are concerned, Hahn is public enemy No. 1. The flat rate for transporting a golf bag in the U.S. is $4, and his weighs 80 Ibs. One club has a rubber hose for a shaft; another is hinged in four places, still another has a shaft 12 ft. long. A canny showman, Hahn modifies his routine periodically to keep it fresh. He no longer, for instance, performs his William Tell Shot-driving the ball off a tee clutched in the teeth of a pretty girl...
...load of bulky packages, some as big as 7 ft. by 8 ft. by 12 ft., weighing up to three tons. From one, corpsmen took four bundles that looked like oversized parachutes and laid them out neatly, edge to edge, on clear ground, then hooked them to an air hose. Solemnly, the big bags shook out their wrinkles as they were inflated and rose into the familiar, half-round shape of a Quonset hut. The four sections were joined together and the joints zippered airtight. Out of the other packages came 20 beds and all the gear needed...
...Senate, too, the Democrats staged a relatively minor North-South clash. Louisiana's Russell Long, 46, wanted to replace Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey as majority whip-even though Huey Long's son has a notable record of anti-Administration votes, including t hose against medicare, aid to education, foreign aid, the nuclear test ban treaty, the Peace Corps and civil rights. Because of past political favors, because the liberals were badly organized-and because the White House carefully did not intervene-Russell Long won out over Rhode Island's John Pastore and Oklahoma's Mike...