Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line on a chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then the pen came to the last column, cryptically marked S.G.O.T. (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase-an index of liver function). As the red line jumped to the top of the chart, above the 250 mark, the doctor exclaimed, "My God!" It was his first intimation that he was a victim of hepatitis...
...same time, many observers saw an interesting index of Mao's control over the Party in the surprise appearance of his wife, Chiang Ching, at spot number 26 on the list...
...script, Reagan and his staff emphasize that he writes all his own speeches. Given the swollen staffs of specialists that surround most campaigners nowadays, the endeavor seems anachronistic. Yet, true enough, Reagan sits day after day on his campaign plane or bus hunched over 3-in. by 5-in. index cards, laboriously printing capital letters with a nylon-tip pen-"my speech for the next town." He has a kind of mental Erector set of phrases, figures and gags that he has used hundreds of times to fit any occasion...
President Johnson may need a Jot more baling wire if he is finally to bring inflation under control. Among signs of continuing inflation last week were auto price increases (see following story) and the consumer price index, which rose in August another four-tenths of a percent to a record level of 113.8, up 3.5% in the past year, with most of the increase due to the higher cost of food. Meanwhile, Wall Street had a kind of relapse. Two weeks ago, after President Johnson announced the suspension of the 7% corporation tax credit for capital investment, the market rallied...
...last, the bulls returned to Wall Street. For the first time since June, investors got a rise out of the stock market on Monday-the Dow-Jones industrial index spurted 15 points for the best single-day gain in 15 months. At week's end the Dow-Jones had risen 39 points, to 814, regaining $25 billion in paper values. As if to celebrate, hundreds of Wall Streeters observed "Mexico in New York Week" by watching an open-air performance by Mexican folk dancers and a troupe of musicians aptly called Los Toritos-The Little Bulls...