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...strip is rolled around the cadaver bone and sutured in place. After almost a month in the hospital, the patient is sent home for about three months to see whether his system can adjust to the presence of the foreign tissue. He takes with him a metal clamp that he uses periodically to shut off the blood supply from one end of the finger roll. Once the implanted finger becomes adjusted to a one-way blood supply, the patient goes back to the hospital...
...weirdest of all of Guest's gadgets. On a 15-ft. pipe base not unlike the landing gear of a small helicopter, CURV mounts four long red ballast tubes for depth control, three electric propulsion motors, lights, sonar, film and TV cameras. Controlled from the surface, it can clamp a detachable claw onto objects up to 3 ft. wide, then back away leaving the claw and a buoyed line attached. Though it is normally used to retrieve spent torpedoes, Guest acted on a hunch and ordered CURV flown out from California...
...were the words I had to go on," Johnson said. His scheme, after six months of study, was indeed simplicity itself. On a one-acre lot still to be cleared, he proposed erecting an open box with narrow openings at either end, "like a pair of magnets about to clamp together but held apart by some powerful force." Material for the 50-ft.-sq., 30-ft.-high sanctuary will be unadorned concrete-"the material...
Combating Hysteria. Over the years, the Duck has learned to clamp those teeth on its enemies and live to bite an other day. Its secret is circuitous attack; it never charges an opponent headon. Stories begin disarmingly: "We of course deny ... It would be false to say . . ." Then they deliver what they are denying in spectacular detail. Thus the Duck gets away with printing stories no other paper dares touch. Once a Deputy not beloved by the Duck sent the paper a letter full of gamy information about government officials. What to do? The Duck solved the problem by running...
...ever, $3.38 billion, cut overseas military spending almost everywhere except in Viet Nam, and pared the value of goods that U.S. tourists can bring back home duty-free. More important, the Government has placed a tax on loans to foreigners by U.S. banks and has asked businessmen to "voluntarily" clamp down on their overseas investments. The drive has been brought home dramatically?and somewhat amusingly?by the President's insistence that U.S. wines rather than