Word: strains
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...important. In 1899, a writer for Scientific American accurately foresaw the triumph of the automobile over the ,horse. He then made the mistake of adding: "The improvement in city conditions can hardly be overestimated. Streets clean, dustless and odorless would eliminate a greater part of the nervousness, distraction and strain of modern metropolitan life." A few minutes' application of imagination and arithmetic, putting together the collective impact of cars, people, noise and exhausts (even if many cars were then powered by steam or electricity), would have shown that if the first part of his projection was right, the second...
Skimpy Second Aid. Many novices get hurt even before they hit the slopes. Though state safety codes have sharply reduced ski-lift mishaps, skiers manage to slip in icy parking lots, strain untrained muscles or fall off ski-lodge bar stools. One young woman recently hurt herself in the ski shop at Vail, Colo. Bending over to adjust the bindings on her rented skis, she ruptured her Achilles tendon and wound up in a cast for two months. Another girl suffered from annoying numbness in her legs whenever she skied. Dr. Arthur Ellison, a Williamstown, Mass., skier-orthopedist who runs...
With Michael Crichton as one-half of the author, it should be. Though only 28, Crichton has already found time to graduate from medical school and write two popular books-The Andromeda Strain (scifi) and Five Patients (medical reportage). Unlike most other young describers of the world of grass, he knows the value of clarity and coherence. As a full-fledged (though nonpracticing) doctor, he certainly does not inflate pot; he seems to see it simply as a pleasurable, nonaddictive drug somewhat less harmful than alcohol. Moreover, Michael has a kid brother Douglas, a student with a fine...
...general uneasiness about Penn's vigorous push in all phases of its athletic program, particularly the swimming and crew programs. No one can deny that Ivy League sports are threatened with professionalization, and that's one thing we can do without, if only because of the financial strain...
...attempts to control a speaking voice only half viable even in shouted orations, pitiably weak in normal conversation. After his "MacArthur Park" sprint to hit parade status, Harris turned out a lamentable series of songs and albums a la Tom Jones only to find his voice failing under the strain. For those repulsed by Harris' posturing as King Arthur in Camelot, Cromwell will hold only one surprise: in between the musical and the historical epic, Harris has lost his ability to speak. For a second-string Richard Burton, such and impairment is obviously of a high order, especially since Harris...