Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being expanded. This fall, Pan Am and Aeroflot expect to commence direct flights between New York and Moscow (9 hr. 10 min., $548 on the 21-day excursion plan). And to make sure the tourist flow keeps up, Intourist, the state-run travel agency, is now priming the pump in good capitalist fashion with a $1,000,000-a-year advertising budget abroad...
Visible Strains. Though Russia continues to pump $1,000,000 a day into Cuba's ailing economy, strains are visibly sharpening between the two countries, and the two leaders had much to discuss. The basic problem stems from the nature of Castro's Communism. He has never really toed his Marx in the strict ideological and economic sense; at heart, he remains a guerrilla. His chief interest lies in exporting revolution to the rest of Latin America...
Died. Ray Smith, 54, Dallas oilman and devoted sportsman, a railroad fireman's son who built a $75 million fortune by parlaying a two-pump gas station into a rich drilling and trucking operation-and then put fishermen everywhere in his debt with another natural resource, Panama's Pinas Bay, where, starting in 1963, he spent some $2,000,000 to turn an isolated patch of Pacific coastline into the handsome Club de Pesca de Panama, which, with its own amphibious plane service and a 15-boat fleet, opened the world's greatest marlin grounds to thousands...
...trade deficit that the Israeli pound is threatened with devaluation. In an effort to stave off that embarrassment, Sapir moved to cut consumption by raising import duties and holding down wages. He also tried to force more workers into crucial export industries by holding off on new pump-priming public-works projects...
With the patient's circulatory system connected to a pump-oxygenator, the surgeon opened the heart and found that the septum (wall) between the main pumping chambers, the ventricles, was torn and consisted partly of dead tissue. A substantial part of each ventricle, to which the blood supply had been cut off by the shutdown of a coronary artery, was also dead or dying. Dr. Heimbecker repaired the septum with a Teflon patch. Then, as the dying muscle in the ventricle walls was interfering with the working of healthy muscle, he boldly decided to cut it out. He removed...