Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minneapolis surgeons had been getting good results with their "cross-circulation technique" for delicate surgery inside the heart-using another human being's heart and lungs to take the load off the patient's while they operated (TIME, May 10). But it was a tricky business, and they would have liked to cut out the danger to a second human being. Why not a mechanical heart and lungs, which several research teams have tried? For one thing, the Minneapolis doctors reasoned, strange things can happen to human blood in a mechanical oxygenating system; it may undergo mysterious changes...
...Manhattan, TV soap operas carried an even greater load of grief than usual as leading characters on Brighter Days, First Love, Golden Windows and The Inner Flame were either accused of or confessed to murder...
...Page explained it: "Your capacity for tension has a limit beyond which it isn't safe to go ... The patterns you establish in your late 20s and early 30s largely determine your load-carrying capacities during your 40s and later. Crackups in middle life are usually the consequence of what you have accumulated or abused in your earlier years. Most crackups are needless. They are a self-invited penalty that we Americans are paying for a doubtful standard of material success. In Europe, and over most of the world, physical and mental crackups are rare, despite wars and tensions...
Although no definite plans have been announced yet, W. Barton Leach, professor of Law and organizer of the plan, revealed last night that he will devote next year to working on the new program, and will carry a reduced teaching load himself...
...take some of the load off "Gorty" Gortatowsky, who rose to the top through editorial channels, Hearst directors had chosen a man from the business side. Boston-born Harold Kern joined the advertising department of Hearst's Boston American in the '20s. He worked for Hearst's national advertising office for several years, in 1938 was made publisher of Hearst's three Boston papers (Record, American and Sunday Advertiser). All three were limping along, with the American in the worst shape financially. Kern changed it to match the tabloid format of the Record, started a combination...