Word: safes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Eisenhower's first heart attack in 1955, the question arose whether he should have surgery. The answer was no, because no surgical treatment of heart disease was considered both safe and effective. That is still true...
...couples who use rhythm for contraception, Cross prescribes a more rigorous schedule than most have practiced: intercourse is permitted for only seven clays before a menstrual period and for only seven days after the period begins. Since most couples will abstain during the period, this reduces the "safe" season to nine or ten days...
COMBAT reporting is never a safe or simple job. But even for case-hardened veterans, the Nigerian civil war presents one of the meanest assignments yet. Merely getting in and out of Biafra is a dangerous and doubtful proposition. The irregular airlift from Lisbon flies through Nigerian antiaircraft fire to reach a makeshift airstrip that is only open at night. When correspondents finally manage to get in, they are shuttled off to quarters in the Progress Hotel in Aba, the country's provisional capital. When they are not in the field, they face the hazards of the Progress menu...
...serious trouble because his debtors are slow to pay him. Mr. Ali, by contrast, avoids that kind of bind by shrewdly refusing to give credit. A typical lesson deals with the display of merchandise in shop windows: "One of these cakes has flies on it. The other cake is safe under glass. Which would you buy, A or B?" There are even a few words on how to knock the competition. If other shopkeepers find that Mr. Shida is selling potatoes at a lower price, Kenya's budding businessmen are advised, they can simply explain that "the potatoes have...
...Shanbrom foresees a day when patients will enjoy still greater convenience. Some batches of AHF concentrate have been made 1,000 times more potent than plasma. Eventually, Brinkhous is confident, this will become the standard AHF, so safe and stable that hemophilia victims will be able to carry it around and inject it themselves, into muscle, just as diabetics now do with insulin...