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...many premature and some full-term infants to shut down the flow of blood through their lungs. Some unborn infants may have had the reflex activated to compensate for an oxygen shortage caused by low blood pressure in the mother, or a constriction or partial separation of the umbilical cord. As a result, the babies are born with thousands of constricted arterioles that do not carry sufficient blood to the lung's air spaces where oxygen is picked up-a condition that leads to the formation of a glassy (hyaline) membrane covering the inside walls of the lungs...
Resnick tried to comply, but could only manage to down half the bottle. The man then gave Resnick a drink of water, tied his hands behind his back with the cord from an electric coffee pot, and forced him onto the bed in the other room. At this point, the man began to ask Resnick questions about the whereabouts of Nwall, his roommate. Resnick passed out from the effect of the drug he had swallowed, and did not regain consciousness until the next afternoon...
...subsequent preliminary meeting of ABC, Comsat, and Federal Communications Commission officials seemed to confirm the claim. But ABC would, of course, still enjoy an enormous economy with the new satellite, and at its annual meeting, also held last week, a stockholder offered Goldenson "congratulations on snapping the silver cord with A.T. & T." Not so fast. The shareholder had forgotten that ubiquitous Mother Bell has a dominant 29% piece of Comsat...
Producer-Director Richard Quine and his scenarists shape the story as an obtuse triangle inclined toward a pert reformed prostitute (Stella Stevens), just the sort of girl to make two able-bodied ex-convicts (Chuck Connors and Alex Cord) change their habits. The dialogue is more square than daring...
...want to go to bed with you," says Cord...