Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disturbing Gains. But John Kennedy is a political realist. As he looked beyond the major Democratic victories in New York City and New Jersey, he could see that the Republicans had made disturbing local gains from Buffalo to Louisville, from Toledo to Tucson-often eroding Democratic strongholds. Almost everywhere, the elections had been tightly fought, clearly presaging a hot contest next November, when the voters will choose all the members of the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate...
Bell Aerosystems Co. Buffalo...
...were those who can talk about their "tickers" without being cute. They are the growing number, estimated at 200, whose heartbeats are timed by transistorized pacemakers implanted under the skin of their bellies. Surgeon William M. Chardack told how he and his colleagues at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Buffalo have miniaturized and refined the instruments for internal use since external pacemakers were first shown to be practical (TIME, Jan. 11. 1960), and how they have implanted pacemakers in 30 patients in the last 18 months...
Working with electronic engineers, the Buffalo doctors devised a transistorized pacemaker, driven by a tiny, long-life mercury battery, cast in epoxy resin and encased in a double coating of silicone rubber. The instrument uses the timing effect of electrical surges in a closed circuit to measure off 60 beats a minute. To carry the impulses to the heart, Dr. Chardack uses two springs of platinum-iridium alloy, attached to the heart muscle...
Some pacemaker experimenters have invented devices to let patients speed up their hearts, by radio signals to the instruments, when exertion demands a greater blood supply. But Dr. Chardack prefers to give the physician this control. In the latest models of the Buffalo pacemaker, there is a second protuberance just underneath the skin. By simply jabbing a triangular needle into this, the physician can adjust the rate...