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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...
...giants of the U.S. rubber industry-U.S. Rubber and B. F. Goodrich-both had reduced earnings. But, said Goodrich's President J. W. Keener: "The recession has bottomed out for us and most of the rubber industry. We expect the trends to be upward for the rest of 1961." Celanese Corp.'s President Harold Blancke, reporting a profit of 32? a share v. 50? a year ago, noted that his company's earnings trend had been picking up since January...
...this was surprising to space scientists. Everything the first cosmonaut reported had been suggested earlier by the instruments of unmanned satellites or by earthbound theory. The narrow blue band that Gagarin saw was the familiar color of the clear sky-the blue component of sunlight that the atmosphere scatters upward into space as well as toward earth. Still, all such details held a fresh fascination: they were part of a firsthand observation, an eyewitness confirmation. They belonged to a tale told by an adventurer into the unknown, and if they added little to man's knowledge, they glowed nonetheless...
...slight increase in steel orders, department store sales up 5% in Easter week, auto sales for March up 15%. Of the twelve leading indexes, e.g., raw-material prices, that the National Bureau of Economic Research uses to measure the business cycle, nine have already turned upward. Said Walter Heller, chief of the President's Council of Eco nomic Advisers: "We assume that the leveling-off is near at hand. But that's the beginning, not the end of our problem. All along, we have felt that the performance of the economy during the recovery phase will determine whether...
...crescendos and sforzandos, threading the strident opening arpeggio throughout his relentless score, and develops leaps of an octave and fifth into a towering mystical insight into the universe. When a Faure melody rises, we feel that it is doing so only to fall back to rest; when Bruckner moves upward his chromatic alterations impel the music to a new height of transfiguration. Indeed, the Te Deum proclaims less traditional Christianity than a musical cosmology, and this performance treated it as such...