Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City will not be able to bring its traffic pattern around the Cambridge Common back to normal until June at the earliest...
...mile trundle to the regular radiation treatment center. At week's end, when his white-blood-cell count rose, the doctors still had more drugs in reserve to beat back the rejection mechanism, and they stepped up his cobalt-60 treatments. Washkansky's liver shrank to nearer normal size; Denise's heart and his kidneys worked so well together that he lost 20 Ibs. of edema fluid...
...Every normal person has two kidneys, and since he can live on one, that means he has one to spare. The corpses of healthy people killed in accidents provide two. So although the demand still far exceeds the supply, the kidney transplanter's problem is minor compared with that of the surgeon who would transplant a liver. Each man has only one, and cannot live without it. The world's pioneer in transplanting livers, Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Colorado, has obtained 15 so far, with encouraging results in four recent operations on little girls (TIME...
Blunders. With a return to normal times and increasing competition, trouble began. Salzgitter's iron ore proved inferior and too expensive to compete with ore from Sweden, Venezuela and Liberia. Ore stockpiles grew to 2,300,000 tons. Seeking to diversify, Salzgitter blundered into acquiring the ailing Büssing truck works for $12.5 million in the early 1960s. Recently Treasury Minister Kurt Schmiicker called that decision "the most striking error made by a company's management in the past few years." Büssing now contributes more than half of Salzgitter's losses; every fourth truck...
...reason for this, he explained, is that under normal conditions only students with "special cases" (married students, commuters, musicians needing unlimited practice time) are allowed to live off-campus...