Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each side of the normal ranges, the authors think, there should be a twilight zone (usually five to ten points wide). In this zone, blood pressure would be looked on with suspicion and carefully rechecked, but still with no conclusion that the patient had "high" or "low" blood pressure. Such a worrisome diagnosis would not be made, they suggest, until there was a clearly abnormal level, e.g., low blood pressure for a man of 20 would be 98/56 or less, while high blood pressure would be 150/95 or more. At 40, low would begin at 102/60, and high would begin...
...agreed that I. G. Farben, world's biggest chemical empire and a mainstay of the Nazi war machine, should be broken up. But they disagreed on how the job should be done. Since then, proposals to dispose finally of the 169 I. G. Farben companies in the West zone* have never gone beyond the talk stages...
...Apparently no such problem faced Russia in the East zone; the U.S. suspects that Russia simply seized Farben's 45 companies...
...Korean war was being fought by a small segment of the U.S. people. The U.S. forces on the battle line were not as big as the baseball crowd that jams Yankee Stadium for sell-out games, and only a minority of Americans-servicemen out-s'de the battle zone, families of men in action and civilians subject to military duty-were directly concerned even in a secondary way. For all its savagery and import, the Korean conflict was working little more hardship on most citizens than the Battle of Wounded Knee...
...Saturday night, Yugoslav residents streamed toward the line. They came in trains, trucks, horsecars and on bicycles-some with permits, most without. When the barrier finally went up on Sunday morning, a mob of 5,000 enthusiastic residents of the Yugoslav zone stormed into Italian Gorizia...