Word: relaxation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seconds of "agonized physical effort." ∙RESOLUTION. After an unusually intense orgasm, this phase may drop a woman into deep sleep within a minute or two. ("Postorgasmic sleep" had previously been regarded as a male characteristic.) The measles-like rash fades, the engorged vessels of the pelvis and breasts relax to permit the resumption of normal blood flow, and the vagina subsides into a state that facilitates the movement of sperm to ovum for conception...
...implications are many, says Dr. Freud. Tourists should relax for a day after a long latitudinal flight. Diplomats and businessmen should arrive at least a day ahead for any big deals. So should soldiers being jet-lifted into combat. The testers are not yet certain whether East-West pilots adjust more quickly after repeated flights, or whether experience teaches them how to compensate, unconsciously for the effects,.of longitude shifts. Still more unanswerable is the question of how well man will adjust to tomorrow's supersonic planes of 2,000 m.p.h...
...License. In their scramble for skilled hands, many industries have either had to relax their standards for hiring or launch costly on-the-job training programs. United Air Lines, the nation's largest line, is expanding its flight-training center in Denver at a cost of $25 million, has begun signing up trainees who lack a commercial pilot's license to meet its need for 800 new pilots a year. Pan American has dropped its insistence on a college degree. All four auto producers have set up training centers (General Motors has 30, Ford 56), summer seminars...
Every Kid a Genius. Despite his success, Newcomer is a chronic worrier who frets about the future of his schools, sometimes goes home and sips three bourbons and water to relax-then frets about having taken three drinks. He worries about integrating his schools, so far partly accomplished by bussing Negroes to junior high and high school. He once strode into a TV studio to interrupt an education speech by Governor Grant Sawyer, accused .him of "irresponsible leadership" in bucking most educational problems to the rural-dominated legislature. When an official of the Nevada Taxpayers Association called Newcomer...
Although the play's charm is evident in the production at the Experimental Theatre, a sea of troubles often threatens to drown it. Despite some good individual performances and occasionally imaginative directing, the production is a makeshift job. What is worse, the company never seems to relax and devote itself unselfconsciously to making the fantasy work...