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...gravity, would make their hearts lazy and flabby, cause dizziness and fluttering of the heart when the men suddenly became active again. White, whose normal heartbeat is an unusually slow 50 per min., registered 96 while lying on the Wasp's examining table. When the table was tilted upright, his heartbeat spurted to almost 150 per min. Four days later it was still 70 to 80. But even that reaction was better than doctors had expected...
...said to be three separate Persons. Then upright or upon the knee, Praise Him that by His Courtesy, For all our prejudice and pains, Diverse His Creature still remains...
Though L. G. Treadway, now 81, has retired, he still keeps in touch with Treadway's progress over a rickety upright telephone in his office at the Williams Inn. His son Richard, 52, is chairman of Treadway Inns, but his three sons have sold all but 25% of the corporation's 4,000 shares of stock to employees. Treadway's president and chief executive is J. Frank Birdsall Jr., 51, a Cornell hotel school graduate and experienced kitchen man who first worked for Treadway during college vacations. To its charm and cuisine, Treadway has lately added...
There is a new look in bicycles for boys and girls: shoulder-high "monkey bars," which, if they do anything, slow the rider down by making him sit bolt upright, thereby increasing wind resistance; smaller, 20-inch wheels, which are supposed to make for easier pedaling; elongated "banana seats," which may or may not provide passengers a more comfortable perch than the handlebars. But this spring there is a new gadget that may save a kid's life...
Pert and brunette, Mary sends a grin across her face in waves, and her 120 Ibs. are settled into a luscious 36-24-36 configuration that has male viewers sitting upright in their reclining chairs. Yet hardly a real-life wife objects. Instead, they take notes. And when she began delighting TV Hubby Dick Van Dyke by wearing Capri slacks, it helped make Capri slacks the biggest trend in U.S. casual attire...