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...distressing 5.8% of the work force, the G.N.P. was running $15 billion behind projections, and the stock market had not yet fully recovered from the resounding crash it took on Blue Monday, May 28, 1962. Many economists thought that the best that 1963 had in store was a business sag-hopefully too mild to call a recession-that would begin before midyear. Government forecasters were willing to project only a timid 4% growth in the G.N.P., which would bring it up to $578 billion...
...features-from both the government's and the draftee point of view-is that each draftee can select the service which best suits his capabilities and temperament. Serving the country might become a humanitarian, as well a military responsibility. Above all, Mr. Esty's proposal promises to end the sag in morale of young Americans caused by the injustices of the draft and by the generally unattractive character of military service at the infantry level. Any plan that accomplishes that much deserves serious attention from Congress...
Since the professed goal of Yoga is "molding the body and harmonizing its movements," Moynahan repeatedly urged his students to be conscious of the internal movements of their body as they rested. Incidental benefits of the exercises, he said, are "ellimination of fat and sag, peak beauty, peak health, so colds, no insomnia, no constipation, etc." "Peddle air--it up the old leg muscles and firms up these thighs," Yogaman Ted Moynahan advises one of his young pretages in Cabot Hall, Moynahan also had the girls looking like limpid pools and cobras "Some of them are just marvelous--they catch...
...heart, and travels through the arteries to the brain, where it cuts off part of the circulation and causes unconsciousness and paralysis. Dr. Kruse told the diving crew to carry the patient to an examining room. Inexperienced at the job, they let the unconscious man's head sag forward until his chin touched his chest. At the same time, they were holding his waist and legs higher than his head and shoulders. Dr. Kruse noticed a twitching of the paralyzed side of the diver's face; there was a barely perceptible motion...
Hugging or Violating. Authors Tunnard and Pushkarev emphasize the need for an "essential unity of plan and profile"-a short sag on a long curve, for instance, should be avoided in favor of the harmonious gradual one. In fact, the authors recommend continuously curving roadways, on the ground that they not only are more esthetic, but also tend to keep the driver interested and therefore alert. Surprisingly, in the average terrain, such highways are very little, if any, longer, and no more expensive to build than the standard design of straight stretches connected by short curves. Uniform median width should...