Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LBNP looks like an oil drum and can be fastened tightly at the waist. Made of rubberized, aluminum-lined canvas, it creates an airtight bag for the body's bottom half. Air is pumped out to create a partial vacuum. Since cabin air pressure is therefore greater on the body's upper half, some blood is forced into the lower part-approximating the effect of gravity-and the heart must make an earthlike extra effort to keep blood moving down below...
...tests in space prove its efficacy, future astronauts will probably spend part of their waking and sleeping hours in the LBNP. And they will work out in it as well. Lockheed already has an exercise-cycle that fits comfortably inside the bag so that astronauts can pedal to get the blood moving more rapidly...
...Eagles kicked the victory out of Harvard's bag early in the third period. Whitey Allen swatted the puck at Fitzsimmons twice from the crease before Huriex...
...million) over the past 15 years, hardly needs any drastic changes, but it now seems certain to get a transfusion of sorts. Last week the company named a Canadian-born physician, Dr. Austin Smith, 54, as chairman and chief executive officer, succeeding Supersalesman Harry J. Loynd, 68. No black-bag-carrying doctor, Smith received his postgraduate degree in medicine in 1940, went straight to the staff of the American Medical Association. In 1959 he became president of the American Pharmaceutical Association, in which capacity he vigorously defended the industry during Estes Kefauver's Senate investigation. So impressed was Parke...
With the help of a veterinary surgeon (Laurence Harvey), a tiny listening device is implanted in a bag-jowled British bulldog named Disraeli. In the name of Britain's Prime Minister, the bugged bulldog is then presented to Russia's Premier. Delighted with his new pet, the Premier takes him everywhere-even to Cabinet meetings. Clued in by verbatim broadcasts from their canine agent, the British government calls every turn of Soviet policy with a precision that appalls the Russian leaders and inspires London's penny press to speculate: Does Britain have a super James Bond...