Word: stress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessary to stress that public measures to control and alleviate the problem of automobile injuries and deaths quickly reached vast proportions. Just as the automobile rapidly permeated and soon began to transform American society, so did the measures adopted to deal with the problem of automobile accidents. It is reasonable to state that fairly soon the average adult American citizen came to have more direct dealings with government through the licensing and regulation of the automobile than through any other single public activity. Not all these dealings were especially uplifting, and some acquired implications all the more ominous because they...
...popular sports and games, such as swimming, tennis and golf, which attract the weekend athlete. They are good exercise, but they are generally practiced in such an irregular and undisciplined way as to be of doubtful value. Says Manhattan's Dr. Hans Kraus, physical therapist, author (Backache, Stress and Tension), part-time mountain climber and the man who eased Pesident Kennedy's aching back: "I'm very much for golf as a game, but don't assume that it's the exercise that you need. People think that they are doing something good for themselves...
Defusing Emotions. The causes are inevitably complex and often irrational. Officials in some of the tense cities are simply trying to defuse emotions. Many superintendents find that one quick way to cool matters is to offer courses in Negro history or stress Negro cultural contributions in standard courses. In Philadelphia, some Negroes demanded that students be permitted to wear African dress to class; the administrators agreed, and that helped soothe the situation, although only three students actually donned the garb. Philadelphia now pays Negro youngsters and adult Negro leaders to attend suburban retreats, where they sound off their grievances...
...Nations. The Atlantic allots an equal amount of space to an assessment of the national mood under the stress of the Viet Nam war. The onlooker: Freelancer Dan Wakefield, 35. While Mailer indulges in broad polemics, Wakefield prefers quiet irony. Roaming the U.S., or the "Supernation," for four months, he discovered within it two nations. Not the traditional rich and poor. Not even the generation gap, though that exists. But what might be called the organizational gap. The well-organized, Wakefield found, generally support the war in Viet Nam; the organizational dropouts...
After a briefly encouraging recovery, Kasperak again began to bleed internally, this time from "stress ulceration." In yet another operation, Dr. Harry Oberhelman Jr. closed the bleeding sites in the duodenum and cut the vagus nerve to reduce the stomach's output of digestive acids. But these measures, plus massive transfusions, failed to halt the bleeding, and Kasperak was soon back in surgery. In another 21-hour operation, the surgeons tried to stanch the bleeding from an ulcer high in his stomach, and removed his spleen in the hope of improving the clotting quality of his blood...