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...keyed up that they must be warned to slow down or face heart disease, ulcers, colitis and high blood pressure. Of 1,000 executives examined at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital in a two-year period, 30% were found to have "abnormal physical conditions," serious enough to affect their working efficiency and endanger their health...
...demands that such a grave personal decision be discussed up and down the committees. A divisional vice president with the prestige of Buick's Ivan Wiles spends a huge operating budget as he sees fit, and goes to the top only when he thinks his actions might affect the other divisions, or when he wants new capital...
Ordinary heat is motions of atoms or molecules, but when the motion has died away at 0° K., the nuclei of the atoms still have a property called "spin." Some spins have more energy than others, and the spinning nuclei can affect the spin of other nuclei near them. So high-energy spin can spread through a substance in much the same way that heat does. Low-energy spin can spread, too, so a substance whose atoms are motionless in the ordinary sense can still lose energy and cool below absolute zero...
...padlocked by the courts, and 128,000 investors and policy holders, mostly in low-income groups, were faced with a loss of more than $5,000,000. Said Texas Insurance Commission Chairman Garland F. Smith: "I don't know any bankruptcy in the history of Texas that will affect more people. It's hard to sleep, thinking about those people who lost their money...
...Irregularities on the moon's surface affect the observation of solar eclipses, which can be used to measure accurately the distances between earthly continents. This is important for the Air Force's most ambitious project, the intercontinental ballistic missile...