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...despair at least once a day." After they lifted off from Fort Baker on San Francisco Bay at 12:33 a.m. on May 8, Maxie and Kris threw overboard 1,000 lbs. of sand and water ballast and rose to 23,000 ft. There they had to don cumbersome oxygen masks and heavy parkas, but caught a breeze that sent them northeast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Search of Perfect Bliss | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...litany of U.S. economic woes at times seems endless. Week after week, interest rates crack new records; home owners face 17% mortgages, and companies confront 20% business loans. Energy, the oxygen of industrial life, has become so costly and politically controlled that the U.S. can no longer be certain of enough fuel to keep its factories running and homes heated. The output of goods per hour worked has stagnated. From 1948 to 1973, the productivity of American employees increased 2.9% annually, thus permitting steadily higher real wages and higher standards of living. Last year productivity dropped .9%. The real median...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalism: Is It Working...? Of Course, but... | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Doctors pumped mixtures of helium, nitrogen, and oxygen into the chamber to simulate various ocean depths. The dive originally had been planned for only 1500 feet but after a successful air misture was found using helium, to replace nitrogen, the divers and doctors agreed to try to surpass the previous depth record of 2001 feet, set in 1972 by a French diving team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diving Record | 4/19/1980 | See Source »

...team, led by an old wartime comrade, Dr. Bogdan Brecelj, 74. The physicians have relied increasingly on medical machinery ever since his kidney failure and the onset of pneumonia. Dialysis treatment, to replace the kidneys' blood-cleansing function, has been used since late February. Tito is also receiving oxygen, and is reportedly hooked up to a respirator, which forces air in and out of his fluid-filled lungs, and an external pacemaker to regulate his erratic heartbeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Defying Odds | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

Parrella reportedly collapsed and lost consciousness during the indoor portion of the fraternity's initiation rites. Delta Kappa members called the campus police after an undetermined period of time, and campus police administered oxygen and called an ambulance...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Student Dies After Fraternity Initiation | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

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