Word: utah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred years ago last week, about 500 Irish and Chinese laborers, politicians, railroad men and prostitutes gathered on a lonely plateau at Promontory, Utah, to witness a momentous event: the joining of East to West by the first transcontinental railroad. Central Pacific President Leland Stanford picked up a silver sledgehammer, swung at. the final spike and missed. Union Pacific Vice President Thomas Durant took his turn-and also missed. Finally, a Union Pacific laborer stepped up and drove it home. A waiting telegrapher tapped out the message: "The Pacific railroad is completed...
...take almost any action they wish. This possibility particularly excites the critics of cigarettes. No cigarette bills of any kind are pending in the Senate, where sentiment against smoking is even stronger than in the House. Washington's Warren G. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Utah's Frank Moss, head of the subcommittee on consumer affairs, promise that no bills will appear...
This research is now being conducted at the University of Utah by Ivan E. Sutherland, associate professor of Electrical Engineering, who is on leave from Harvard. Another "liberated" document is a notation of Sutherland's contract with...
Since they did not finish first or second in the Easterns, Imrie and Faller were not sponsored by Harvard's Department of Athletics. Therefore, the two were completely on their own and had to hitchhike to Chicago and then drive in Imrie's car to Utah...
...soon will artificial hearts-or even temporary assist devices to do the work of the main pumping chamber-become generally available? That is still problematical. The University of Utah's Dr. Willem J. Kolff, inventor of the artificial kidney and an early artificial heart researcher, complained in Los Angeles that cardiologists are reluctant to try the devices "because anything artificial is looked upon with suspicion." He predicted that physicians would revise their thinking when they realize that the familiar heart drugs, in which they put great confidence today, cannot save patients whom an artificial heart might keep alive...