Word: lamme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similar legislation has died or been pigeonholed in a dozen states this year as a result of church opposition, mainly from Roman Catholics. Colorado's bill was carefully steered through the lower house by Denver Representative Richard D. Lamm, who kept the debate as unemotional as possible, relying on research prepared by the American Lutheran Church. Lamm gave Catholic opponents a quick history lesson...
Barring Transients. To the argument that "abortion has always been forbidden by the church," Lamm replied that until the reign of Pope Sixtus V (1585-90), termination of pregnancy was permissible within 40 days of conception for a male fetus and 80 days for a female.* Sixtus banned all abortions, but was reversed in the year after his death by Gregory XIV, who declared abortion illegal only after the fetus quickens. Not until 1869, said Lamm, did Pius IX revert the church to the position of Sixtus V. Lamm urged Catholics to follow the lead of Boston's Richard...
Steady Flow. This is the job that has been taken over by the big steel cylinders, otherwise known as mercury-arc valves. Perfected for high-voltage use by Dr. Uno Lamm of Sweden's ASEA company, they are filled with hot mercury vapor and act like instantaneous switches. High-voltage AC from step-up transformers runs into them, and whenever the current changes its direction, it is switched to the opposite pole of a DC transmission line. A bank of valves switching in unison produces a steady flow of current...