Word: tractioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cheswick (Peter Fonda), with face as straight (and wooden) as a tongue depressor: "I like the way you say things, Tammy-it's so unusual." In line of duty, Sandra proves to be a Florence Nightmare. She discovers a patient in the process of operating his neck-traction rig, dashes into the room to cut down what she diagnoses as a would-be suicide; she borrows a pair of scissors from the operating room and nearly sends an appendicitis case back to surgery for a reopening when the shears turn up missing in the instrument count. Mercifully, she does...
...month now, the most glamorous city under the Southern Cross has been dining by candlelight, but hardly from choice. Rio has been plunged into its most serious power shortage since 1904, when a company eventually taken over by the Canadian-owned Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. brought the city its first electricity and enlightened Brazilian parents began naming their sons Edison-still a favorite first name in Brazil...
...scientists in the first bewitchment of their powers, but it applies surely to future physicians destined to concern for their fellow men and, by the same token, to men in other fields. What the liberal education basically seeks is not a fast start in a man's twenties but traction and opening scope in his thirties and later, College resembles the circles that bees make before homing to their course; the wider the circles, the truer the course...
...give fair value for the properties. Since World War II, increased expenses and government-set rates have caught the U.S. and Canadian companies that run Brazil's telephone and power plants in a profit squeeze that has kept them from needed expansion. Canada's $1 billion Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. Ltd., which owns 82% of Brazil's 956,000 telephones and one-third of the installed power capacity, has been making only 1% to 2% on its investment. It says it can do nothing about the complaint that some 300,000 citizens of Rio de Janeiro...
...trip to the U.S. two months ago, Goulart got President Kennedy's general agreement to a plan under which the utilities would be nationalized for fair value. Brazilian Traction agreed. So did American & Foreign Power Co. Inc., whose eleven subsidiaries, worth $250 million, produce 10% of Brazil's power. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which recently lost a telephone system to Rio Grande do Sul's Leftist Governor Leonel Brizola and is still trying to collect, was noncommittal. But Goulart's decree last week should do something to ease I.T. & T.'s pain. The government promises...