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...President has special reason to be pleased. By 1972, if his advisers are correct, inflation will be under control, national output will again be growing at about its optimum rate of 41% yearly, and unemployment will be down. That would create an auspicious climate for Nixon's re-election campaign...
...fastest cars are selected from the seventy-five or eighty that are entered, and then the 500 mile race itself. For qualifications, the cars are set up to run around a two-and-a-half mile rectangular track as fast as they possibly can. Chassis are set up for optimum handling with a small fuel load and no regard for tire wear. Oxygen-bearing nitromethane is added in large quantities to the alcohol fuel, producing increased power and decreased engine life. No car could hope to finish the race in this condition, and after a car has qualified, the crew...
...road." Not only on the roads but in wheat paddocks, barns and pantries across huge stretches of Victoria and New South Wales, hordes of field mice now form what one farmer calls "a moving carpet." The rampaging rodents, product of a rare combination of a big wheat surplus and optimum ground temperatures for breeding, constitute the worst such plague in Australia since...
...life in, say, Boulder, Colo., which lacks natural fluoridation. The same is true also of the townspeople of Lubbock or Bartlett, Texas, where the natural fluorides are too highly concentrated, as high as four and eight parts per million. (Some of these towns are now "defluoridating" down to the optimum 1 p.p.m.) Oldtimers there are found to have harder bones, with more fluorides in them, than their kin in non-fluoridated areas. At East Carolina University, Dr. Hal J. Daniel III has studied the stapes bones (in the middle ear, and essential to hearing) of residents in high...
Over the past five years we have spent close to a million dollars in developing the techniques required for optimum utilization of fragrances and flavors in microcapsules for use in advertising, on packaging and in the goodies themselves...