Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...followed up his telegram by demanding that the printers turn in their "travel cards," which permit them to take jobs outside the city when on strike. Those who refused to do so, he implied, would lose their seniority. To date, about 100 out of 380 printers in the Sun unit have drifted back to work...
...submarine division of the First Annual Willam James Hall Boat Race, Stanley Milgram, assistant professor of Social Psychology, appears to be the prime contender with a hull made of a baby bottle with a carbon dioxide cartridge for a propulsion unit. The craft is supposed to run submerged for most of the race and surface at the finish...
Clearly, the world needs a new reserve asset. Just as clearly, it needs to get rid of Charles de Gaulle. Fortunately, to pose that two-fold problem is to solve it. I propose that the world abandon gold, establish a new monetary unit, and use Charles de Gaulle himself as the reserve asset. Instead of the gold outflow, we would have the De Gaulle outflow. And, since De Gaulle would be allowed to say whatever he pleased, wherever he were stationed, it is doubtful that many countries would cash in their extra currency...
...models of assistant ventricles have been produced steadily, in improved shapes and for both ventricles (see diagram, left). It is only seven weeks ago that the DeBakey team ran what it thought was a highly successful experiment with a unit that replaced both of a dog's ventricles. Yet progress in the field is so fast that within four days the researchers were dismissing their test as old hat. They were getting as good or better results with a single ballooning sac inserted in the left ventricle alone. It seems, says Dr. Hall, that this may be enough...
...wagons of carefully put together junk, which Rauschenberg thinks of as "a collage out of sound." The connecting links are auditory; four pieces tweet and woof, continuously tuning up and down the AM dial, through their own radio speakers. There is a fifth go-go cart with a control unit for the $6,000 worth of electronic equipment...