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Says Early: "There's no reason for a doctor to send Johnny off to a pediatrician to have a boil lanced or a sliver removed, just because Johnny is under twelve. Yet an internist is supposed, ethically, to send all patients under twelve to pediatricians. There's no reason why a general practitioner can't do most minor surgery and most obstetrics. If there's anything unusual about a case he'll call in a specialist anyhow." General Practitioner Early starts practice this week in Lemon Grove (pop. 20,000), nine miles from San Diego...
Michely constructed a simple device: a strong-walled pressure vessel with a valve and a nozzle at one end. When used as a rocket booster, it is filled with 66 Ibs. of water heated electrically to 504° F. The water cannot boil because it is confined, but its pressure rises to 50 atmospheres (735 Ibs. per sq. in.). When the valve is opened, part of the water turns into steam, and a jet of steam and water spurts out at 1,140 m.p.h. The reaction, Michely claims, can push an airplane forward just as efficiently as a fuel-burning...
...physiologists try to adapt fragile-fleshed man to the hostile conditions of high-altitude, high-speed flight. One of their tools is a low-pressure chamber where men in space-cadet pressure suits try to keep at work, while a near-vacuum sucks at their flesh and tries to boil their blood...
Confronted with the dead body, men have asked themselves at various times: "Shall we lay it in a boat that is set adrift? . . . Shall we expose it to wild animals? Burn it on a pyre? Push it into a pit naked to rot with other bodies? Boil it until the flesh falls off the bones, and throw the flesh away and treasure the bones?" Primitive peoples discovered that, by devouring a dead body, they did not acquire its spirit; with that insight, as myths tell it, the original oneness of spirit and body, heaven and hell, was torn asunder...
...Hartford, Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff came to a high boil when he read in a pamphlet put out by the state government workers' union: "The C.I.O. won't give up on major issues, and will connive, persist and annoy or do anything to get what you [the workers] have a right to have." Rumbled Ribicoff: "Anyone caught conniving or annoying ... in any department of the state government while I am governor will be fired on the spot...