Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he was slammed against a bridge abutment while riding a freight train. The arm was not mangled, although its upper part was torn. Duty surgeon Dr. L. Henry Edmunds promptly spotted a chance for a historic operation. He started giving the boy two pints of blood, to combat shock, and antibiotics and tetanus shots to guard against infection. Then Dr. Ronald A. Malt, chief resident surgeon, gave the go-ahead order that called in all the specialists who would make the operation a major team effort...
...trying to paint the track left by human beings-like the slime left by snails." Francis Bacon says this evenly, not trying to shock, but not joking either. His canvases seem to many to be ghastly views into torment,half-decomposed portraits of things better left unpictured. But no one denies their power: put up last week in a big show at the Tate Gallery, they hit London like a slap in the face with a hunk of raw meat...
...distressing shock for the baron. He had barely bought a large Tiepolo in Venice in 1865 when the Venetian court, foretokening the laws against exporting art treasures that apply now in all major Western countries but the U.S. and Switzerland, ruled that he could not take it away. Baron de Schwiter, a diplomat, got an Austrian colleague to smuggle it out anyway; now, decades later, it has ended up in the U.S., the country whose eager art buying inspired most of the protectionist laws elsewhere. Last week the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced that it had acquired the Tiepolo...
Smoke Screen. Purpose of the high-altitude shots is both military and scientific. Nuclear explosions in the vacuum of space or in the thin fringe of the atmosphere do not behave as they do in the dense air near sea level. Little or none of their energy goes into shock waves; most of it escapes as X rays, neutrons, and other varieties of radiation that are relatively unimportant in ground-level bursts. But military men are most anxious to learn what this radiation will do to missiles and satellites, and even to aircraft...
...turn around and get rid of the G.M. shares itself. Even in a normal market, such an unloading could affect the prices of both G.M. and Du Pont shares. Most market analysts agree that G.M., which expects a near-record sales year, should be able to withstand the shock. Even Du Pont, though its dividends will drop with the loss of its income from the G.M. shares, should bounce back. Said one specialist: "At present prices, Du Pont would still be selling at about 20 times earnings, and this is in line with other chemical stocks...