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...Strong got his information from a giant balloon belonging to the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory that carried a telescope above nearly all of the earth's atmosphere. An automatic pointing device locked on the sun and used it as a reference point to focus the telescope on Venus. Then the telescope photographed the spectrum of solar infra-red light reflected from the top of the cloud deck...
...innermost tube (see diagram) goes into the stomach so that any escaped blood can be suctioned off. The second, with a balloon on its end, goes just inside the stomach, where it is inflated to serve as an anchor. The third chamber is a sausage-shaped balloon nine inches long, which is inflated in the gullet. Its pressure against the varices stops the bleeding...
Though the Sengstaken-Blakemore tube is effective in many cases, most surgeons and all patients hate it. It is inserted through the nose, which is most uncomfortable, and the inflated balloon itself is painful. If left in place too long, the balloon can become ulcer-producing, so it must be deflated after about 24 hours. The patient cannot swallow saliva or other secretions, so a cut is usually made into the windpipe for drainage. Understandably, the tube is used only in case of real emergencies...
...damage suit against Baker, Ernest C. Tucker, Baker's Washington law office associate, and Fred Black Jr., a Baker buddy who, like Baker, is a big Serv-U stockholder. Hill's suit, with the publicity it generated, was the pin that popped Baker's soaring balloon. In the suit Hill charged that Baker negotiated to get Capitol's machines into Melpar, then demanded a monthly kickback. Hill said he paid Baker $5,600 over 16 months. He also charged that when Baker wanted Hill to sell out to Serv-U and he refused, Baker talked Melpar...
...STOCK. Baker's fortunes began to grow when he first latched onto a 250-share hunk of stock in Milwaukee's Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. (nicknamed "Magic"). He bought the stock before the SEC had registered it, eventually saw a $28,750 investment balloon to about $400,000. Why had Magic's president, Max Karl, catered to Bobby? As Karl later testified, "I was impressed with his title." It would be good for Magic, he added, to have "well-known stockholders," and Baker "knew a lot of people." Baker certainly did, and he touted many of them...