Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claimants to increase their demands to an amount which will bring them into court-and there they will still be faced with the present outmoded concepts and procedures-and interminable delay. Compensation plans similar to workman's compensation acts are the right prescription. Whether on state or national level, provision for full participation by private industry is indispensable...
...Hans Haacke, 31 , has dreamed up an ingenious way of getting the viewer to turn on the art with out really trying. On display last week in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery was a small white room, lined on four walls with 28 electric bulbs at shoulder level. When the viewer walked into the room, the four lights centering on him lit up in unison. When he moved, other bulbs lit up, chasing him around the room in a Big Brotherly game...
...hunt for H-bomb parts and contaminated debris scattered by the crash of a B-52 SAC bomber last month. Searchers armed with scintillation counters came upon chunks of wreckage that caused their instruments to go off scale at their maximum 2 million counts-per-minute rate-indicating a level that was above the highest count recorded at the Palomares, Spain, crash site in 1966. To minimize the threat that the radiation poses to plant and animal life, the recovery operation will continue until as much as possible of the 200 Ibs. of fissionable trigger material in the four shattered...
...home from Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., with the prescription to "feel free to do a little elbow bending." Mrs. Cunningham felt like two bourbon-and-ginger-ale highballs a day. "This," she says, "was the only thing I could keep down." But it did not raise the alcohol level in her blood high enough to keep the oxytocin down. For that, a level close to the intoxication mark is needed. Her contractions began again. So back she went to the hospital. And there she stayed for eight weeks...
...disease takes the form of a deficiency in antihemophilic globulin--Factor VIII. In normal humans the Factor VIII level in the blood stream ranges from 50 to 200 per cent. Hemophiliacs generally have a Factor VIII level of less than 25 per cent...