Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only someone able to define to a child what a spiral is without moving his right index finger can properly admire Patrick White's latest novel...
Simian Line. What Dr. Achs and other medical "palmists" look for is half a dozen common abnormalities. A single deep crease, instead of two separated lines, from the base of the index finger to the base of the pinkie is known as a "simian line" (see diagram). It occurs with many disorders including mongolism and some rubella (German measles) defects. Also unusual is a radial loop pattern pointing toward the thumb in the ridges of any finger other than the index...
British researchers measure the angle between the axial triradius and those at the base of the index and little fingers. The normal angle is around 48°; the higher the axial triradius, the larger the angle-around 80° in mongolism, and still greater in some of the other chromosomal abnormalities...
...nation's second largest steel company, Bethlehem is the leader in structural shapes, with 38% of production. But structural steel itself comprises a mere 7% of total production-and Bethlehem's hike would have added only one-fourth of 1% to the Government's steel price index. Moreover, Bethlehem pointed out, because of new, stronger, lighter structural steels, construction users now pay less than they did five years ago for equivalent jobs...
...minority groups. The most fashionable minority, of course, is the American Negro, and quite properly so, for Negroes suffer the greatest discrimination and deprivation in our society. Puerto Ricans and the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant residents of Appalachia are also -- again, quite properly -- fashionable groups to champion. (The best index of fashionability is probably the number of articles about the group in the New York Times Magazine.) Other groups, however, which suffer less discrimination and deprivation -- for example, ordinary working people of Irish, Italian, or Polish descent -- are generally excluded from any fashionable sympathy...