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This syndrome only recently achieved the distinction of a medical name - deprivation dwarfism. To treat its victims doctors simply take them away from their homes - and it appears that even the institutional tenderness of a hospital can snap emotionally starved youngsters into a spurt of growth...
...digestive system less able to absorb food. Although doctors see a connection between a baby's mental state and growth, they cannot yet show how an emotional problem becomes a physical one. They do know that no matter how deprivation dwarfs thrive in a hospital, the spurt often ends when they return to the homes that started the trouble...
...like in increasing our earnings to match our recent sales growth." At G.E., the percentage of profits to sales ran 4.7% in 1966 and 1967, well down from 1959's recent record of 6.2%. Last year earnings would have been off even more except for a final-quarter spurt in overall sales, including those of TV sets, appliances and other consumer products, which account for some 25% of G.E.'s business...
Durno was not the only sophomore to star in the team's win. The sophomore line of Joe Cavanagh, Steve Owen, and Dan DeMichele scored four goals, including two in the three goal spurt within 22 seconds and broke the game wide open for the Crimson...
Barrios was taken to Ames and strapped into the NASA centrifuge. He was spun for half a minute at 4 Gs. X rays showed that nothing had happened, so he was whipped around again, this time for 20 seconds at 5 Gs, with a final spurt of 6 Gs. This time the experiment seemed successful: X rays indicated that the little piece of lead was safely embedded in the brain tissue around the upper ventricle. But Barrios was still being closely watched-in case he needs another trip to the centrifuge...