Word: normal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cratchits. Responding to brokers' cries that their clerical ranks were folding under the paperwork generated by this year's unprecedented pace of trading, governors of the New York Stock Exchange last week held an emergency Monday meeting, ordered a "temporary" shortening of daily trading sessions from the normal 51 hours to four hours. The shorter hours, which are scheduled to continue through this week, were matched by the Big Board's smaller Manhattan neighbor, the American Stock Exchange, as well as the nation's seven regional exchanges...
...surprised everyone by signing himself back into the hospital. The students decided that henceforth each would involve himself with a particular resident so as to be able to predict storms. Fortunately the patient returned three days later. The students found that structured relationships were not so successful as the normal give-and-take, but the experience was useful for all concerned...
Under the 10 per cent surtax plan, a taxpayer would calculate his tax in the normal manner under the existing rate. He then would calculate 10 per cent of the tax and add it to the tax to obtain the amount which he owed the government...
...proved to be inaccurate. The Saturday Evening Post claimed that an Oregon child "had a defect of the intestinal tract and its head was developing grotesquely-one side growing at a much faster rate than the other." In fact, the baby's head and chromosomes are normal, says Dr. Egozcue. There is no reason to believe that his intestinal abnormality is related to his mother's single dose of LSD. But at least four babies of LSD-tripping mothers, now being studied in Buffalo, have broken chromosomes...
...study of Boston schoolgirls, Dr. Mayer found that obese girls ate less than normal-weight girls of the same age and height. But the obese girls expended only one-third as much energy. Mayer agrees that obesity has no single, simple cause; such hereditary factors as metabolism and body build, as well as reaction to stress, are also involved. But there is one universal way to control obesity-exercise...