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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fifth in output (behind the U.S., Russia, West Germany and Japan). British steel, though technologically advanced, suffers from too many inefficient small firms, and Labor economists argue that if the industry is not nationalized, a massive number of mergers, leading to monopoly situations and price fixing, are bound to occur. The Conservatives admit the problem, but deny that nationalization is the answer. Iain Macleod, lately returned to the Tory front bench after a disgruntled self-exile in journalism, called steel nationalization "the application by small and foolish men of a 19th century solution to a mid-20th century problem...
...finally, might this whole business of "indefinite tabling" simply be a ruse on the part of the Masters to delay a change which they know will occur sooner or later? If so, we can only gnash our teeth while the wheels of progress grind exceeding slow. The student bodies of Harvard and Radcliffe, as well as this newspaper, have made it indisputably clear that interhouse dining would be a good thing and welcomed by everyone. What then is the point of postponing the advantages, financial, moral, social, aesthetic, and the rest? The students have demanded this change--and it should...
...Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center describes a plastic coil immersed in a bath of water kept at blood heat. The blood, passing through the coil on its way from the transfusion bottle to the patient's arm, reaches his heart at just the right temperature. Heart stoppage used to occur in about 50% of patients who got six pints or more of chilled blood; it occurs in only 7% now that they get coil-warmed blood...
...industry spends $35 billion a year on quality control-almost all of it to detect and correct mistakes after they occur. If Z.D. can continue to motivate people to better craftsmanship, it could save much of that...
...fist in the face or a knee in the groin are routine asides. The climaxes occur when a gang of hoodlums beats a stray soldier nearly to death, with every kick, blow, chipped tooth, broken bone, and gout of blood and vomit described in detail; when a gang of transvestites and their boy friends get high on gin, Benzedrine and morphine, with every ensuing act of sodomy and fellatio described in detail; when a gang of dockworkers, derelicts and degenerates inflict multiple intercourse upon a prostitute in a parking lot so savagely that she is killed, with every drop...