Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safety, styling has not been forgotten. Among brand-new cars, Chevrolet offers the Camaro, a copy of Ford's successful Mustang. Lincoln-Mercury's Cougar has a front like a Thunderbird and a rear like the Mustang. Next week Cadillac will display the Eldorado, a front-wheel-drive sports car with Caddy configuration and the innards of Oldsmobile's Toronado...
Divine Instrument. His nation was stunned. In the cities, whites and blacks fought for copies of the newspaper extras that brought the first word of the assassination. In Johannesburg, a bus driver saw the headlines, stopped his bus, and fainted at the wheel. A quarter of a million South Africans, black as well as white, stood silently on the streets of Pretoria while his funeral procession filed past. Hundreds of thousands of whites flocked to their churches for solace. "May the God in whom we believe make clear to us in his own time what this horrible event...
Some hospital patients get sicker simply from lying in bed. Whatever else may be wrong with them, patients who suffer long sieges in bed or wheel chair are prone to develop bedsores, ugly and dangerous wounds that often harbor fatal infections...
...children's jelly-like plaything called Silly Putty. Next, he designed 16-sq.-in. pads of silicone gel, which have the resiliency of flesh itself. Protected by such pads, sores in bedridden patients were not only prevented but also healed. When the gel is used in wheel-chair seats, says Spence, the decreased threat of pain and tissue breakdown even serves as a form of psychotherapy...
...Balance Wheel. Controversial activity is a long tradition with Fannie Mae. A 28-year-old New Deal creation, the agency has become the world's largest mortgage banking facility by buying $15.7 billion of loans to finance 1,586,000 homes and apartments. Basically, it aims to lend heavily when home loans are scarce, sell part of its portfolio to private lenders when funds are plentiful. So well does the agency perform this balance-wheel job that private mortgage men consider it indispensable. Precisely because of Fannie Mae's high standing in the financial community, Congress often gives...