Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lahti's patients went to his office after a few days for removal of stitches, but there were only two hospital readmissions for minor complications. "There has been," says Dr. Lahti with evident relief, "a surprising lack of telephone calls although each patient is advised to call at any time if he has any questions or problems...
That was all very good news, but another announcement by Ford was even more interesting. It involved safety. When the Government, after widely publicized congressional hearings two years ago, issued rules for safety equipment on cars, the automakers went along grudgingly. Lately, however, they have taken some of the initiative away from Washington and introduced reassuring safety features of their own. One of the most sophisticated was announced by the Ford company last week: on next year's Thunderbirds and Continental Mark IIIs, Ford will offer, for an optional $150, an "auto linear" system that computes away the danger...
...time, he wrote a guide to collegiate summer jobs, then at a cost of $150 printed up posters advertising "high-paying, fun-filled positions" and distributed them on four Wisconsin campuses. So many orders poured in the first week that Randell quit his $12,500-a-year job and went into business for himself. The $2.95 guide has since turned into N.S.M.C.'s mainstay product; last year Randell sold 100,000 copies in three editions and recently Doubleday & Co. brought out a fourth for bookstore sale. The company also operates one of the nation's largest computerized dating...
Ships & Reactors. Those statistics mark a long reach from the spring of 1898, when a young teamster named Warren Bechtel hitched up a couple of mules and went into the "earthmoving" business in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. His knockabout enterprise prospered, and by the time of his death in 1933, "Dad" Bechtel was head of the combine building the Hoover Dam, the biggest construction project of its day. It was his son, Stephen Bechtel, who expanded the business into a worldwide engineering and construction organization that now employs some 8,500 technicians and engineers...
...team. Nosal tripled three times in the outdoor season. In the freshmen's narrow win over Princeton, he swept the discus and then settled down against Princeton's top weight men in the hammer and shot. After fouling twice in the hammer, he qualified on the last throw and went...