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...made of titanium and other modern alloys are being developed, primarily by Japanese surgeons. Dr. Yasuto Itami, of Tokyo, recently designed and implanted a titanium and polyethylene thigh bone that can be precisely adjusted to fit the patient when it is installed. Other orthopedists are using cords of woven Dacron-which is chemically inert and thus will not trigger an immune response -to repair or replace damaged tendons. Dr. William Harrison Jr. of Tulsa, Okla., uses Dacron tubing to repair separated shoulders; the material forms a scaffolding or framework upon which new ligament can grow and is so effective that...
...might as well be a magazine called Playgun to offer forthright celebration of America's steamy relationship with firearms. Such a publication might eliminate the need to justify all that noisy discharge of lead at tin cans, clay pigeons and passing cars that is so dyed-ih-the-Dacron American. There might even be a centerfold featuring the latest model that has come to the big city for the exciting night life-but ultimately, of course, would like to settle down as a policeman's side...
...surgical part of the five-hour procedure took only 31 minutes and was uncomplicated. Making a tiny incision in the heart, Replogle sewed a dime-sized patch of Dacron cloth over the hole. After the incision was closed, he hooked Oliver up to a heart-lung machine for the first time; it pumped warm blood through his body and washed the potassium out of the heart tissue. The effect was immediate. Oliver's heart began to beat slowly, then gained momentum; within 30 minutes the beat was back to normal...
...down sleeping bag as warm as a 15-pounder made of Dacron: about...
...shaking wife, who has just nearly been mugged, about packing his suitcase: "Have you got a pencil? I want my tan cowhide two-suiter, not the one from Mark Cross, the new one from T. Anthony. Then I'll need two suits-the gray Glen-plaid Dacron-and-worsted from Brooks, and the oxford-gray basket-weave polyester-worsted from Press. Then six ties, use your own judgment, keeping the suit in mind . . ." And so it goes. After taking down a veritable mail-order catalogue, the wife also throws in underwear, handkerchiefs and a belt -items her peacock forgot...