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...black topcoat soft in the harsh lights. And as he orated to Massachusetts' industrialists, his language at once filled with references to deficit financing and the timeless rhetoric of a politician from the Northwest Territory, he seemed fully capable of standing in a crowded, dimly lit Senate chamber and delivering the reply to Hayne (no doubt as H. Horatio Humphrey...
...Goulart) had been stripped of their rights to vote, hold elective office or government jobs. With Goulart, it was academic, since he had fled to exile in Uruguay, but it ended, at least temporarily, the careers of Kubitschek and Quadros. Article 7 didn't use such star-chamber techniques. But in practice, accused persons often were given only a few hours to mount and present a defense before the judges...
...operating table. The newest branch of surgery is now going a step further and requiring the whole operating team to undergo the hazards along with the patient. This fast-developing technique requires that operations be conducted with both patient and surgical team isolated in a sealed chamber under pressure up to seven times the earth's atmosphere. So successful have the results been to date that surgeons consider the risk worth taking-even for themselves-and already-crowded hospitals are now adding whole new combinations of hyperbaric chambers and spheres to make such under-pressure operations possible...
...microbes that cause gangrene are of types that thrive without oxygen, he succeeded in killing the microbes by flooding them with oxygen. Since then hyperbaric conditions in the operating room have proved a godsend when treating infants with congenital heart defects. Working in an old and relatively primitive Navy chamber, Harvard's Dr. William F. Bernhard and his colleagues have now operated on 80 such infants and children, have had only one patient die during surgery...
...tank filled with swimming goldfish looked like any other pet-shop aquarium, but the hamster hopping about inside the tank raised more than a few eyebrows. Sealed in an air-filled chamber, the hamster was staying nicely alive in his underwater environment without the help of lines or pipes leading to the air above the surface...