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...Angeles County General Hospital, Dr. Kegel has developed an answer to that problem: a device (approved by the A.M.A.) called the Perineometer. Essentially a pressure-registering gauge, it consists of a compressible part inserted in the vagina, and a dial. Dr. Kegel tells the patient being tested to tighten her muscles. If the needle registers above 20 or 25 (the millimeters of mercury that the exerted pressure would support), the pubococcygeus is healthy; if the reading is no higher than five, the muscle is in poor shape. With the Perineometer Dr. Kegel's patients practice pubococcygeal contractions and note...
Then, under its youthful-looking new President Duncan Ballantine, Reed ran into a crisis. In trying to tighten his administration, Ballantine so antagonized faculty and students that he finally had to resign (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954). At that point, Reed desperately asked Griff to come back and take over...
...soon turned out that Carmichael and Alabama had different ideas about what the university should be. While Carmichael tried to tighten academic standards, he refused to share the concern of some alumni over the fact that 'Bama's oncegreat football team has won only two games in the last 23. To many old grads he became the original longhair. But even worse: he broadly hinted that the university might one day have to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation...
Past increases in the Bank of Canada interest rate were imposed to tighten the money supply and curb inflation. The latest increase, while it will have some anti-inflationary effect, was applied primarily for another reason: to get the government out of an embarrassing fiscal squeeze. In its most recent short-term (go-day) borrowings, the government had been forced to pay an interest rate of 3.26%, a slightly higher rate than the 3.25% interest on loans made through the Bank of Canada. That situation was obviously untenable; chartered banks would have been able to borrow from the government, then...
...expected to raise will pay for only about five months of fighting in Algeria. Then, if the rebellion has not been settled, France's economic prestidigitators will be faced with an aggravated version of their original problem-how to finance a war without asking the French people to tighten their belts...