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...unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: I am Frightened (Yellow) | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

...exchange also will show off to the press a new computerized system for matching the institutions' big buy-and-sell orders. Next month the exchange will relieve crowding by increasing space 20%, opening up an extension to the trading floor. Exchange officials are asking SEC permission to lengthen trading half an hour to a 2:30 p.m. daily close-still an hour earlier than normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WALL STREET: TROUBLE IN THE PRIVATE CLUB | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: I Am Frightened (Yellow) | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: I am frightened (yellow); I am saddened (blue) | 4/26/1969 | See Source »

...salad oil to potato chips. Now researchers are beginning to wonder if the preservative cannot also be used to prolong the life of man. That possibility is suggested by Biochemist Denham Harman of the University of Nebraska medical school. With regular feedings of BHT, he was able to lengthen the life span of a strain of laboratory mice by 50%. "In human terms," says Harman, "this is equivalent to increasing life expectancy from 70 years to 105 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biochemistry: The Elixir-of-Youth Effect | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

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