Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, President Dwight Eisenhower brandished some economic facts that might turn out to be bigger bipartisan news to the people of the U.S. than all the week's campaign speeches put together. In the third quarter of 1958, said Ike, gross national product climbed to an annual rate of $440 billion, and "a $500 billion economy is now clearly in sight...
...said Khrushchev, "will not give a kopeck" to any joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves." At a Kremlin reception two days later, Premier Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to advance the U.A.R. 400 million rubles ($40 million at the tourist rate) to help Nasser build the Aswan High...
...Westminster and Victoria Hospitals in London, Ont., two brothers, Drs. John and Angus McLachlin, decided that the thing to do was to make the calf muscles pump the blood at full rate. To do this, they report in the Archives of Surgery, they attached stimulating electrodes (similar to the paste-on recording leads used in taking electrocardiograms) to the calves of patients undergoing long operations. A simple electrical pacemaker kept the muscles contracting and the blood flowing, clot-free. The Canadians believe that the method might save a lot of lives if enough surgeons...
...varsity socceer team has a record of seven wins and only one defeat; it has yet to lose in Ivy League competition and is in undisputed possession of first place; yet it must rate as an underdog this morning when it faces a strong Pennsylvania team here...
Munro feels that the combination of hour exams along with five staight away games is responsible for the Crimson's relatively successful, but still disappointing showing. At any rate, the honeymoon is over and the Crimson will have to prove itself today...