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...women of Cambridge, is the time to strike out against such bourgeois traditionalism. For those of you are still unenlightened, go see How To Make A Woman at the Caravan Theatre and find out how downtrodden you really are. The lot of the female is not to be envied: thrust at birth into a machine which twists and represses her, grinding ever onward toward that great goal of FEMININITY. At the end of adolescence she is vomited out with hair tortured into curls, and a body either Nutramented or Metricalled to suit fashion. In short, she is prepared to find...
...Harvard one week ago, he didn't come to put on one of his shock shows. He did throw in a few pungent illustrations-"specialists say they wouldn't be surprised at all if 12,000 people are electrocuted every year because of unsafe hospital wiring"-but the thrust of the speech was different. What Nader has realized is that his effective life span as a reformer is limited. Someday he will get tired or wear out, suffer public embarrassment or simply not be able to get into the newspapers any longer...
...problem is that Boeing had originally asked Pratt & Whitney to provide an engine thrust of 41,500 Ibs. As the weight of the plane rose during development, however, the engineers had to revise this figure to 43,500 Ibs.-all within the original production schedule. When the engine strains for that much power, its casing tends to distort or "ovalize." That, in turn, reduces the amount of thrust and raises fuel consumption by 5%. Pratt & Whitney engineers are trying to find a way of installing stiffening rods that would eliminate distortion of the casing. The Federal Aviation Administration will have...
...evangelicals move away from their recent patterns of spiritual isolationism and back toward involvement in society, leaders who have been advocating this change have become more prominent. Billy Graham, certainly the world's best-known evangelical, has himself been urging a renewed social thrust, but there are even stronger voices. Among the most influential...
Many babies have a standard reaction to a sudden, sharp noise. They fling up their arms, and thrust out their legs. This "startle response" normally disappears by the time a baby is four months old. But if it persists and gradually intensifies, it is probably an indication that the baby has Tay-Sachs disease. This is a rare genetic defect that leaves children completely paralyzed, deaf and blind by the time they are two, and is usually fatal by the age of four. Modern medicine knows no cure for Tay-Sachs (named for the physicians who first described the condition...