Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thorne knew this was a deceptive reaction, likely to be followed by a worse crisis leading to convulsions, shock and possibly death. He decided to try the experimental drug he had read about, desferrioxamine-B (trade-named Desferal by Ciba Pharmaceutical Co.). The trouble was, only a few medical centers had been approved to use the stuff; Dr. Thorne phoned Ciba to learn where he could find a supply. The nearest proved to be at Duke Hospital in Durham, N.C., and it took a special flight by a Navy plane to get the Desferal to Charleston in time. With...
...into the outer tube, air pressure forces the inner tube tight against the limb and extends it straight. The pneumatic splint prevents further damage from broken bone ends until the victim gets to a hospital. In burns, it prevents the seepage of body fluids-a major cause of burn "shock." And the pressure of the inner tube on the limb, whether broken or burned, prevents further bleeding...
...Shock Waves. Last year, in his capacity as a state legislator, W. Byron Rumford introduced a bill prohibiting discrimination for reasons of race or creed in the sale or rental of nearly all California real estate properties. The Democratic-controlled legislature was most reluctant to take any such action. But Democratic Governor Pat Brown put on all sorts of pressures; civil rights demonstrators staged sit-ins and hunger strikes, and just a few minutes before the 1963 session of the legislature ended, the Rumford bill was passed...
That set off the real shock waves. The 40,000-member California Real Estate Association, long opposed to "open housing" laws of any kind, swiftly launched a movement to draft a state constitutional amendment and circulate petitions, which won a place on the 1964 ballot for what is innocuously labeled "Proposition...
...mission's bugproof "tank," a compartment big enough for a handful of embassy officials to sit down in and discuss business without fear of Soviet prying. Most infuriating of all to his faceless opponents, Schwirkmann devised a technique for discouraging would-be wiretappers with a smart electric shock...