Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attendants in an inner compartment were breathing almost pure oxygen at a pressure of three atmospheres. At this pressure, oxygen dissolves more readily into the fluid part of the blood (like carbon dioxide dissolving in water to make soda). The doctors hoped that this extra oxygen would ease the strain on the baby's heart, which was racing madly in an effort to distribute enough oxygen from his inefficient lungs. For a while, the technique seemed to be succeeding. But in the 40th hour of his life, Patrick Kennedy's overtaxed heart stopped...
Despite such devices, few culprits are picked up by police. Many firms hesitate to report a theft, perhaps fearful that the thief they catch just may be one of their own. What's more, efficiency experts say that exposing employees to the strain of a perpetual manhunt is bad for morale. There is also the bad publicity to consider. Best advice, then, for the white-collar worker, as well as for his boss down the hall, is: Keep purses in locked drawers, wallets in pockets-and hang onto your hats...
Sharing the Strain. In the tense summer of 1961, Coles moved to Atlanta, where ten Negro children were girding themselves to "integrate" four white high schools. Bomb rumors spread; abusive phone calls gave the kids bad dreams. With foundation money, Coles and his wife set up a unique "practice" -fulltime sharing of the kids' trials and triumphs over the next two years...
...America. Coles found that youngness is the key to successful desegregation. Much as he was moved by one small Negro girl's drawing of herself in New Orleans as "a lonely blackbird, cautiously winging her way toward the school," he observed that the youngest children show the least strain. In New Orleans, white six-year-olds gravely promised their parents to avoid Negro children-and then happily skipped rope with them as soon as they got to school. Equally important, the world of school shut out adult rioters; all they did was create more school spirit. "Frantz School will...
...Lloyd's, and 20th Century-Fox recovered $2,000,000 from Lloyd's when Elizabeth Taylor's illness delayed the filming of Cleopatra. Ever alert to a little publicity when the price is right, Lloyd's even covered a Manchester cinema against its patrons' strain, wrench or rupture due to "excessive laughter...