Word: kouwenhoven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...save string or old clothes in attics are likely to run into psychologists who tell them that such hoarding is neurotic, or economists who prove it uneconomical, or architects who simply do not provide enough storage space for it. The new American maxim, Columbia University's John Kouwenhoven has suggested, should be: "Waste not, have not." This does not signify that waste has become accepted in the U.S.-on the contrary. It is only that its meaning has changed. Neither Cotton Mather nor Malthus nor Marx anticipated a society in which only 15% of the population would produce...
...William B. Kouwenhoven, 74, an electrical engineer (professor emeritus at Hopkins) who also lectures on surgery at the university, worked out the method with the help of three colleagues. The team experimented first with animals, then adapted the idea to human anatomy. It consists of putting one hand palm down on the unconscious subject's lower breastbone, placing the heel of the other hand on top, then pressing down sharply and releasing smartly, 60 to 80 times a minute. Even in old people, ribs are so flexible that danger of breaking them is negligible. One limitation: the method will...