Word: vita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...robot blood-pressure machine -or sphygmomanometer-that has sharply reduced Mrs. Williams' dependence on her physician is one of the latest marvels of medical technology. Introduced in 1976 by Vita-Stat Inc. of Tierra Verde, Fla., and now produced by other firms as well, the coin-operated gadgets have appeared in some 1,300 shopping malls, drug and department stores, factories and hospital lobbies across the country. They are not only cheap and fast -a reading takes a little more than a minute-but impressively accurate. Comparing their results with those obtained by conventional means, Dr. Joseph Chadwick, director...
...miniature "brain"-tiny silicon chips or microprocessors. Programmed to recognize the noises, the microprocessors not only instruct the machine when to pump up and deflate the cuff, but also determine the exact time for taking the two readings. If there are any disturbing outside sounds or arm movements, Vita-Stat's machine flashes three zeros on the screen and refunds the customer's money...
Faced with a tough government austerity program and a period of inevitable economic hardship, millions of Italians have fallen back on a uniquely Latin approach to the problem of how to preserve the vestiges of their fast disappearing dolce vita. With wage gains quickly eroded by runaway inflation and jobs in any case difficult to find, many workers have simply quit the official system to work in the booming secret economy that has come to be known as il lavoro nero, the labor black market...
Though he still considers Laetrile "an out-and-out fraud," De-Vita allows that "testing it may be more ethical, more beneficial and less harmful to the public than what is happening...
...supplying nuclear arms to the Arab states. The Scheersberg A, which is still in service as a tramp steamer under the name Kerkyra, was secretly owned at the time of the uranium caper by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. It was one of three ships (another was called the Vita) that Israel used in the late 1960s for secret operations. TIME has discovered that the Scheersberg A was almost certainly involved in the refueling in the Atlantic of five gunboats seized by Israeli agents from the French harbor of Cherbourg...