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...minor irritation, however, compared with the hazards of long-term space flights. U.S.S.R. Cosmonauts Anatoli Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev returned last December from their record-breaking 211-day flight in obviously debilitated condition. Soviet TV clips showed the cosmonauts being helped into a hot whirlpool bath. Even though they had exercised daily, the prolonged weightlessness left their muscles so flabby that for a week they were barely able to walk. Five weeks after the landing, TASS, the Soviet news agency, reported that they were in the Caucasus continuing "to undergo rehabilitation...
...feeling pain as exquisitely as she does. But there are some moments no one could bring to life. Who could infuse dramatic tension into the leisurely reading of a newspaper? What actress could bring off that old Oscar-cadging ploy, the sudden quiet hysterics in a bubble bath...
...country house is 54 "cottages," the first 38 of which were opened in 1942. Actually, these are not detached cottages but one-room-with-bath flats, tiny garden apartments. When health fails, the resident of a cottage usually moves into the "lodge," which accommodates 62 people in "suites" that are, again, one room and a bath, giving onto a common corridor. Greater attention is at hand in the lodge. Even greater attention is at hand in the hospital. A resident's physical slide can be tracked by his moves...
...Extra-Terrestrial; of complications from a blood infection; in Youngstown, Ohio. A former radio announcer, sheriffs dispatcher and bowling alley bouncer, Bilon played, or rather wore, the 40-lb. hero in most of his movement scenes, an experience he compared with spending time in a steam bath...
Clark's day begins at 8 a.m. when a nurse awakens him for a sponge bath and a series of tests. At least once every eight hours his blood chemistry, cardiac output and other vital signs are checked. After a morning visit from his doctors, Clark rests briefly and then is helped into an overstuffed recliner chair, where he sits until 5 or 6 p.m. His frequent catnaps are interrupted by two 20-minute sessions of exercises to strengthen his muscles and improve his circulation...