Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors emphasized that their discovery is not a diagnostic technique but a tool of basic scientific research that may help them decide whether individual cases of congenital heart defects are caused by genetics or by trouble in the womb. Can a layman tell the difference between "normal" and "abnormal" palm configurations? "No," says Dr. Hale, "and he shouldn...
...Loehr called for an alliance of religion and science, since it was apparent from the results of his experiments that prayer could become a powerful laboratory tool. Not only could America invoke God's help to increase its food production, he said, but since prayer can be employed negatively--as in stunting the growth of cancer tissue--we of God's country can also bring famine to the atheistic nations of the East...
...flew off to Moscow for an unpublicized talk with Khrushchev. The following month Ho sided with Moscow in its doctrinal dispute with Peking, and last December the payoff came. Russia promised to ship 43 industrial enterprises to Viet Nam by 1965, including power stations, fertilizer factories and machine-tool factories. In addition, Moscow lent Hanoi $480 million in rubles...
...goes from the Chevrolet transmission plant and the Delco-Remy battery plant. But Warner Gear, maker of auto transmissions and normally Muncie's No. 1 employer, has laid off one-third of its boom-time payroll of 4,500. Many of the city's foundries and tool and die shops that supply the automakers are at least partly shut down. Merchants dependent on blue-collar trade are faring badly; a credit jeweler complains that he marked $30 watches down to $14.95 and still nobody buys. A low-price furniture dealer groans that he is averaging one customer...
...laid off in mid-1960, he tried to make a living as a freelance patternmaker, leased a small machine shop, for which he agreed to pay 40% of his profits. So far, that has proved to be a poor bargain for the landlord. "I bang on the doors of tool shops all around these parts," says Smith. "All around-Kokomo, New Castle, Elwood, over in Anderson. I've quoted on 15 jobs. I got two little ones-two weeks' work." Smith also puts in 30 hours a week as a commission salesman for a local food wholesaler...