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...Your review of Malamud's The Fixer [Sept. 9] focuses its critical beam upon a nonexistent work: the "contemporary American" novel that the reviewer wishes Malamud had written. The book is judged in terms of what it is not, and therefore is found to have "missed." There is nothing more contemporary than Malamud's theme; that of identity. Within the "innocent-guilty" framework is embedded the hard, solid nut of Yakov's stubbornness: I am what I know is true. Malamud speaks for contemporary Americans as well as for one Russian Jew. Man's inner quantum...
...Tufts-New England Medical Center, started experimenting with water beds made from sheets of plastic stretched over tubs. The basic idea came from 19th century doctors who tried water mattresses constructed on the same principle. But like its predecessors, the Weinstein-Davidson product weighed in at an impractical, beam-breaking 3,000 Ibs. The doctors did not give up, though, and lightweight improvements on their design, manufactured by the Scott Paper Co., now fit standard hospital beds. The hollowed-out, foam-rubber mattresses have inserted plastic sacs that fit patients like a cloud and allow their weight to be distributed...
Since the days when the stethoscope and blood-pressure cuff were the only instruments that most doctors used, medical technology has acquired a huge array of machines - cryoprobes, air-driven bone saws, laser-beam knives, nuclear reactors to irradiate brain tumors. No less troublesome than the complexity of the devices is the lack of standardization: diathermy machines made by two manufacturers for the same purpose have dials calibrated on different scales, so doctors must translate one to the other for comparisons. And there is no assurance that either scale or machine is accurate...
...Doptone, based on the Doppler effect, transmits a narrow beam of very-high-frequency sound into the abdomen, detects fetal life and heartbeat after the tenth week of gestation, with out harming the mother. It also pin points blockages in peripheral arteries, as a guide to surgery...
Unlike most mammoth science and engineering projects, SLAC has had unusually smooth and efficient sailing. Its total cost will be $114 million, precisely the amount appropriated five years ago for SLAC's sponsor, the Atomic Energy Commission. In a warmup test last month, it produced an 18.4 BEV beam and performed so well that its Stanford operators decided to begin allotting time for experiments to start next November, several months ahead of schedule. Its only serious problem, caused by the stubborn refusal of Woodside, a nearby suburb, to allow use of its land for SLAC...