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...16th time that she has supervised the movement of typewriters, files, Associated Press ticker and Teletype from the bureau offices in Houston's downtown Humble Building. During Apollo 8's pioneering voyage around the moon, she sent copy by Teletype for 20 hours without letup, all through Christmas Eve until noon on Christmas Day. The bureau's Apollo 11 file to Jaroff, Kriss, and Researchers Sydnor Vanderschmidt and Gail Lowman made even that effort seem pale by comparison...
...pain exists without letup, says Neurosurgeon Benjamin L. Crue of the City of Hope, the chances are 10 to 1 that it is neurotic or at least psychogenic. "Organic pain doesn't work that way," says Crue. "It comes and goes, with a few exceptions such as some cases of cancer. Nearly all the rest of the pain that patients call 'constant' or 'unremitting' is psychological." This is not to say that such pain is not "real." Most medical authorities now agree with Sternbach, who says: "Excluding the malingerer, who by definition is a deliberate...
...record numbers. Le tout Paris was caught up in a frenzied swirl of parties and balls that surprised even veteran socialites. "I have never seen such a social season," the Duke of Windsor told friends. "We have been going nonstop for weeks, and there is no sign of a letup...
...Sign of Letup. Natural gas has been piped from the gulf since 1937, and estimates are that the area harbors some 79 trillion cubic feet of gas or about one-fourth of the total U.S. reserves. The pipelaying splurge began sometime last year when natural-gas companies, who form the nation's sixth largest industry, found demand outpacing supply. Then came a fillip from the Federal Power Commission in Washington. Ruling that the gas companies should bring the Louisiana deposits ashore individually, the FPC scotched the plans of a large group of 30 oil companies headed by Shell...
There is no sign of a letup in the resulting proliferation of pipe, even though some lines already parallel others. Gas companies plan to lay out another 850 miles next year, despite some gathering economic clouds. It takes about three years before a pipeline even begins paying its way, and it will be a long time before the gas companies can retrieve their share of the total $8 billion sunk off Louisiana so far. Even now, other underwater strikes are turning up, notably off Texas...