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Moscow's Research Institute of Experimental Surgical Apparatus and Instruments went to work in the 1950s and devised 20-odd mechanical staplers to suture internal tissues together with stainless steel wires. But few surgeons were ready to drop their deft fingerwork and give the experimental devices a try. Now, almost a decade later, American improvements on Russian designs are beginning to bring automatic suturing into the operating room...
Once the fun was discovered, no one could have enough. The next day the foam-making apparatus was driven over to the town dump near Springs, another artists' outpost, where the suds spewed forth once again so that all the children could have a good wallow. "The silliest thing I ever saw," exclaimed one horrified mother. But not all agreed. "A blast-out of sight. I wish it could happen every day," said one teenager. It probably won't. The tab for the three-day Happening, with the cost of filming, was nearly $30,000-a fairly inflationary...
...biggest traffic gains have come across the Atlantic, largely at Pan American's expense, and owing in significant part to Tillinghast's decision to plunge into free in-flight movies, at a cost of $60,000 per plane just for the apparatus. Though the earphones needed to hear the movie sound track were pretty uncomfortable, and the programming was often dreary, the novelty lured passengers. But it jolted the International Air Transport Association, the fare-fixing cartel dominated by European lines, which couldn't stand the cost of competing. Delicately hinting that TWA would otherwise face harassment...
...enforce discipline and assure permanent control, the party sows the land with 3,000,000 paid propagandists and 3,000,000 "inspectors." Even its spies have spies. Against this party apparatus, the government itself counts merely as a pro forma showcase structure existing only to do the party's bidding. As Avtorkhanov writes: "A modern Commu nist state can exist without its official state apparatus, but it cannot exist without its party apparatus...
...powers that, for the first time, crack the monolithic power structure of the state. But Avtorkhanov warns that none of these alterations should give much comfort to the West. Russian Communism, he says, comes perilously near to being self-perpetuating, proof against every perturbation beneath it: "The party apparatus is superior not only to the state but to the party itself. Its solidarity and its stability do not depend upon an individual or upon a few individuals but on a structural system. Communist dictators come and go, but the Communist dictatorship remains...