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...Meryman was first to apply it to taxidermy, and he has accumulated abundant data on the drying time of various animals. Small insects take only 24 hours to freeze-dry. A garter snake needs eight days, and a red squirrel requires four to six weeks in the vacuum chamber. From the scientist's point of view, freeze-drying has one big advantage over standard commercial taxidermy: the animals' internal organs remain intact, can be reconstituted for study or dissection simply by restoring their water...
...hushed with suspense was the Senate that the few muffled coughs in the crowded galleries echoed across the chamber. Veteran Capitol correspondents had never seen before, during a Senate roll call, so many individual Senators intently keeping their own running tallies of the votes. As the tension mounted. Vice President Richard Nixon got up from a seat in the back of the chamber and walked over to Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott to watch Scott's tally sheet. On the Democratic side of the aisle, John F. Kennedy sat somber-faced, his chin propped on one hand...
...roll, the tally stood at 46 nays, 42 ayes. Dick Nixon swung behind the chair of New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, his top Senate ally in the medical-care battle, and smilingly patted him on the shoulder. Jack Kennedy stood up and stalked out of the chamber...
...electrocardiogram, at the age of only five hours, gave evidence of severe heart-muscle destruction (technically, "myocardial infarction"). The boy died when 18 hours old, and the autopsy showed two areas of infarction, one of which was so massive as to involve half the heart's lower left chamber...
...shock British intelligence experts who followed the trial. Toward the end of his Air Force hitch as a first lieutenant in 1956, he was "approached and interviewed" by Central Intelligence agents. He passed medical exams. "A special high-altitude suit was made for me and tested at a special chamber. My pay was to be $2.500 monthly . . . approximately the same as the captain of an airliner.'' (From the Russian audience came gasps of astonishment.) About "six or seven months after the con tract was signed." Powers learned that his duties might entail flights over Russia...