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...principle of the heart's "kick" is as simple as the thrust of a rocket: with each beat, blood rushes upward and strikes the aortic arch (where the great artery curves downward). The impact is great enough to give the whole body an upthrust. Almost simultaneously, acceleration of the blood directed downward by the aortic arch adds to the upthrust. When the descending blood slows down, there is a rebound effect which gives the body a downthrust, about half as intense as the earlier upthrust...
...Mohole, which will cost more than $20 million. It is backed by the National Science Foundation, and its goal is to drill clear through the earth's crust to the "Moho,"* the boundary between the comparatively light rocks of the crust and the much denser mantle, which extends downward for i ,800 miles and whose properties are largely unknown. Geophysicists are sure that even one hole drilled to the Moho will tell invaluable volumes about the history, structure, content and behavior of the earth...
...unusual attitude toward his subjects: he thinks that they are usually wrong. Small investors, says Drew, are most wrong just when the stock market is making important changes in trends; they sell when the market is getting ready to advance and buy when it is headed downward...
...members, notably former New York Fed Vice President Robert Roosa, now Under Secretary of the Treasury. They wanted the Fed to get back into long-term interest issues. Since long-term rates were already easing, Martin sensibly agreed to help give them a downward nudge and his critics a chance...
...round of inflation. But Martin, who has carved out the Fed's reputation for independence in the last decade, has no intention of letting the image be chipped away now. He has made plain he will cooperate with the Administration as long as long-term rates are moving downward anyway, but will not use the Fed's purchasing power to buck the market if the trend turns up. Its entry into the long-term market last week was cautious: it bought only two U.S. issues worth some $13 million...