Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason is that the ECG is relatively expensive; each reading costs an average of $15 or more. Another reason is that there are too few expert cardiologists to read all the ECGs now taken, let alone the millions more that a truly effective preventive-medicine program would demand. Now, in an application of transistor-age electronics, a compact new machine enables technicians to do the initial screening, and select for the cardiologists' attention only those ECGs that contain warning evidence of abnormalities...
...Soviet author (The Story of a Life), and dean of his country's literary liberals; of heart disease; in Moscow. Although a traditionalist in much of his own work, Paustovsky defended such rebels as Boris Pasternak and Yuli Daniel, was so well entrenched that the Kremlin could only let him have...
...very personal one-reclusive Howard Hughes's reluctance to show himself in public. Back in 1963, he gave up his right to manage TWA rather than make a court appearance. Now, at ABC's request, the Federal Communications Commission scheduled hearings on the takeover and let it be known that Hughes's personal appearance was a must...
Public education, of course, is a tough business. Most politicians pay lip service to the theory, and prefer to let congressional committees and blue-ribbon panels do the spadework in comparative privacy. Perhaps it is too early to ask for anything else. But the feeling persists that we are witnessing a phony debate in a time when the voters are more eager than ever for genuine open contention and debate...
...talk about mobile tactics, about moving one step faster than the police, about scattering and re-grouping, "because movement is life, man." When they come, take to the side streets. If it looks like one cop has someone caught, everyone else converge on The Man, and he'll let your comrade go. Keep loose, keep moving. The man can't run as fast as hippies...