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...duplicate that miracle, Staffieri made a small slit in the esophagus of a laryngectomy patient. Then he flapped part of the esophageal wall over the top of the trachea, forming a valve linking windpipe and pharynx. To speak, the patient simply placed a finger over the external breathing hole in the neck. Exhaled from the lungs, air was forced through the internal esophageal slit, allowing the pharynx to vibrate and create sounds. But the valve could open only when air from the lungs forced it open. When food or liquid came down the esophagus, the valve remained closed...
...Rose Bird herself who asked for the investigation. She has been under fire ever since she was appointed to the top justice post by Governor Jerry Brown in 1977. Because she had no previous judicial experience, critics claimed that she was unqualified to administer the state's 255 courts and 2,000 judgeships or to make significant legal decisions. Her opponents charged that Bird, who served as agriculture and services secretary in Brown's cabinet, was named to the position only because she was a woman and had long-time political ties with the Governor...
Congress's sea change from generalized energy skepticism to a mood of "Let's produce" reflects the refreshing new perception in the nation. As a top Energy Department official observed to TIME Washington Correspondent Richard Hornik, "All of a sudden there must be 40 different energy production bills floating around on the Hill. A year ago, when we tried things like that, we were laughed off and accused of empire building...
That experience offers lessons for today. After several false starts, the Government in World War II decided to concentrate on one method of production and poured resources into it. Top managers were recruited from private industry, there were attractive incentives to manufacture the product-and in a remarkably short time, the nation was almost completely self-sufficient...
That blunt assessment of the dangers of the ill-starred Firestone 500 steel-belted radial was sent to the company's top management by Thomas A. Robertson, Firestone's director of development, in September 1973, one year after production started. Despite his memo, others like it and an epidemic of auto accidents apparently caused by the tire's failing, Firestone over the next five years went ahead to make and sell nearly 24 million 500s at about $50 each. All along, the company insisted that the tire had no safety defects...