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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Interest. Shrewd, autocratic Walter Heller is the leader in a fast-growing type of commercial financing that only in recent years has become completely respectable. When banks lend money to firms, they do so on the basis of assets and good credit standing, a yardstick that often rules out loans to small or struggling businesses. Heller, on the other hand, does not bother himself about the borrower's credit, takes on firms with chronic management or financial ills as readily as sound companies that have fallen on hard times. Reason: he accepts a company's accounts receivable...
...Foreshadowed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1508, contact lenses were first made in Europe in the 1880s. They were big, covering most of the sclera (the white of the eye), heavy (made of glass), hard to fit and forbiddingly expensive. Early plastic lenses were also of the big scleral type, had to float on a bath of special wetting fluid, and could be worn only four to five hours at a stretch. Then came the methyl-methacrylate plastics (of the Plexiglas family), the discovery that fluid was unnecessary if lenses had a hole to permit tears to pass beneath...
...Special types of contact lenses are being devised for a variety of visual defects. There are two main types of bifocals, one squared off so that it will not rotate, the other made of concentric circles, with the reading prescription on the outside (this type can rotate freely). When the eye has lost its own lens because of a cataract operation, a contact can help in many cases to supply the tremendous correction needed. Another type is being tried in the early stages of glaucoma. There is evidence that contacts may slow down the progression of myopia, and hope that...
...trouble, said Dr. Perera, is that in 20,000 scientific articles over the past 60 years, primary hypertension* has been tied to no fewer than 14 different diagnostic criteria or combinations of them. Estimates of its prevalence range from 5% to 25%. Heredity, sex, race, body type, personality, stress, pregnancy, occupation, diet and climate have been listed as all-important-and of little significance in its development. Mortality, among patients followed for ten years, ranges from 12% to 91%. After sifting all this chaff and studying almost 3,000 patients, Dr. Perera said that he has reached these conclusions...
...agency had deceived TV viewers by shaving phony sandpaper in commercials for Colgate-Palmolive's Rapid Shave and by doctoring Standard Brands' Blue Bonnet Margarine with liquid drops that were billed as "flavor gems" (TIME, Jan. 25). Reeves's ad was addressed, in 84-point bold type, to Earl W. Kintner, FTC's mild-mannered but sharp-minded chairman. It looked as if long-haired Rosser Reeves was taking a swing at the judge while his case was still in court...