Word: minored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowdown in 1966 during which they continued to answer alarms but refused to keep records, make safety inspections or clean up debris after fires. Detroit policemen, demanding more money and better work conditions, staged a brief "ticket strike" last year, deliberately cut the number of summonses issued for minor traffic violations by 50%. Slowdowns also occur when workers phone in sick in large numbers, a ruse used over the past 18 months by Philadelphia street cleaners, San Antonio garbagemen and Des Moines firemen...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Gilbert Highet, critic, scholar and author, attempts to solve a minor but amusing artistic puzzle concerning the identity of the bridegroom in Peasant Wedding, a 16th century painting by Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel...
...else was interested in a 5 ft. 7 in., 145-lb. infielder. Nobody, except Uncle Buddy Bloebaum, who just happened to be a Cincinnati scout. At 18, Nephew got his contract and a trip to the Class D Geneva, N.Y,, Redlegs. He hit only .277, was ignored in the minor-league draft. Then he started to grow, stretching 4 in. and putting on 50 lbs., all of it muscle. In 1961, he swatted .331 at Tampa, and .330 at Macon, Ga., the following year. Still unimpressed, Cincinnati invited Pete to their spring-training camp in 1963 almost as an afterthought...
...hemophiliac's blood lacks, because of a genetic defect transmitted from mother to son, is a clotting protein known as antihemophilic factor (AHF) or globulin (AHG), also called Factor VIII. Because of this deficiency, the hemophilia victim lives in constant danger of severe bleeding from the most minor wound, such as a finger cut or a tooth extraction. Even with no external injury, he may bleed internally after a bump or a stumble. This is especially likely to happen inside his joints, causing arthritis with progressive deformity and disability...
Born at Smyrna, Asia Minor, Demos spent his early years in Constantinople, and earned an A.B. degree in 1910 from Anatolia College in Marsovan. He came to the United States in 1913, studied at Harvard where he earned a Ph.D., and joined the Harvard faculty in 1916. He became Alford Professor...