Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Already the hour is late. Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right to know. Government tends to grow. Government programs take on weight and momentum...
Fresh clues pointing to causes of heart disease appear regularly, and new styles in preventive medicine follow inevitably. Researchers have urged programs of regular exercise and have warned against smoking. Doctors have spelled out the dangers of excess weight; others have worried about weight fluctuation caused by repeated crash diets. More recently, physicians have concentrated on cholesterol and other fats. Now they have tracked down another apparent culprit...
...front-wheel cars. According to Olds engineers, front-wheel drive offers more traction and stability than conventional rear drive; it also eliminates the hump on the floor (because the transmission and differential are up front). Other engineers contend that front-wheel cars tend to oversteer, and that the added weight forward causes greater wear on brakes. The Toronado, a two-door, six-passenger hardtop that is four inches shorter than Oldsmobile's 215-in. Starfire, will come to market in mid-October. Price in Detroit: about $4,500-in the same range as Ford's Thunderbird and Buick...
...physics teacher, he designed a tulip-shaped oar that gets a better bite on the water, conceived the idea of rigging the No. 4 and 5 oars on the starboard side of the shell to reduce veering. He also became the first coach to put his men on a weight-lifting regimen to build shoulder muscles. The only thing that Adam didn't do was learn how to live with the few defeats that came his way. Last year, after Ratzeburg narrowly lost out in the Olympic finals to Philadelphia's hot-shot Vesper Boat Club, Adam locked...
Explosive Energy. The same property that makes liquid hydrogen so intractable makes it a powerful and efficient rocket fuel. For use in rockets, liquid hydrogen is changed to its gaseous state, mixed with an oxydizing agent and ignited. Its explosive energy is greater per unit of weight than that of any other fuel now in use: one-third more thrust for each pound of liquid hydrogen than for the same weight of kerosene-oxygen fuels. "The difference in performance of liquid hydrogen over any other rocket fuel," says Norman C. Reuel of North American Aviation's Rocketdyne division, "represents...