Word: savers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court duly deferred to the diplomats, and the Cubans were delighted. The Russians meanwhile worked out a political face-saver by agreeing to deliver to Peru for transshipment to Chile; their vessel was released. But last week, just before the Imias would have sailed, the angry Chileans put up a required $25,000 appeal bond, and the case is now before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Thus at week's end the Imias was still stuck in the canal, where its captain says he will sink her rather than give her up. The whole episode has left...
...Choke Saver. Food inhalation has been a killer for centuries-all the more reason, Eller and Haugen say, for modern doctors to be familiar with the symptoms. A son of the Roman Emperor Claudius I is said to have choked to death on a pear he tossed playfully into the air and then swallowed. More recently, Mrs. Joan Skakel, Ethel Kennedy's sister-in-law, died after inhaling a chunk of meat in 1967. T.V. Soong, the brother of Madame Chiang Kaishek, choked to death in 1971 while dining, as did ex-Baseball Slugger Jimmy Foxx...
...mouth resuscitation is like "trying to pour water into a corked bottle." The food must be retrieved-with fingers or, if necessary, with a pair of tweezers. After a year of testing in Florida, Eller and Haugen now recommend that a 9-in. plastic tweezer-like device called Choke Saver be kept at the ready in every restaurant. It has already been used by a city first-aid unit in Jacksonville, Fla., to save the lives of three victims. Using either his fingers or the Choke Saver, a clumsy amateur may bruise a victim's throat while wrestling with...
...year money; and 6½% on 2½-to four-year deposits. On CDs running for four years or longer, banks can now pay anything they please; the Federal Reserve Board requires only a minimum deposit of $1,000 and a penalty on the saver who withdraws his money before maturity...
...Time Saver...