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...bored thousands who sit in their plush offices, protected by a benefit program that only an affluent society looking for tax advantages could imagine, your Second Acts Essay [March 8] is exciting and challenging. Cutting the umbilical cord to the big mother corporation is hard, but in most cases, it does open up a whole new life. After 18 years with a fine company, I have made the change. Your article is reassuring...
...plan ran afoul of Surveyor 7's first glitch. After firing a small explosive charge to free the box, the scientists began lowering it on a nylon cord. Halfway down, the box stuck. Using the spacecraft's TV camera to hunt for the source of the trouble and working with duplicate models, JPL scientists and engineers from JPL and Hughes Aircraft, designer of the moon robot, struggled to set it free. Twice they nudged it with the digger arm. No luck. All it did was swing a bit. Then they tried again, using the arm to steady...
Five Minutes a Year. A prime reason for Goodyear's historic success has been innovation-or, as Chairman Russell DeYoung puts it, "You can reflect on past glories for five minutes each year, then forget it." Goodyear's firsts include the rayon cord tire in 1938, the nylon cord in 1947 and the polyester cord in 1962. Last week the company's latest creation was introduced: a polyester and fiber-glass tire, which will be sold as a replacement for original equipment tires and is said by the company to have twice their lifetime. More expensive than...
When Toronto's Dr. Gordon Murray announced that he had operated on seven paralyzed patients by cutting, shortening and rejoining their spinal cords, neurosurgeons were incredulous. How could he have succeeded where so many others, equally skilled, had failed? Last week Toronto General Hospital issued a dismal and dismaying report on Dr. Murray's cases. A search of its records disclosed that in only one case had the spinal cord actually been cut, as Dr. Murray described. And this was not the case of Bertrand Proulx, whom Murray had exhibited at a fund-raising dinner (TIME...
Neurosurgeons generally were skeptical of Dr. Murray's report. They recalled a similar case of a woman operated on at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital in 1901 who recovered for several years, but then suffered a relapse. They insisted that in animal experiments severed ends of cord had been snugly sewn together but that regeneration had been brief at best, due to formation of scar tissue. If Dr. Murray's spinal-cord repair stands the test of time, it will be an impressive achievement indeed...