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Cigar Shape. Described as a patch booster, the pump is an improved model of the device developed in 1966 by Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur, a physicist. Made of silicone rubber and Dacron, the booster is deceptively simple in construction. Six inches long and shaped like a cigar, it consists of two tubes, a balloon-like outer bladder surrounding a narrow tube, with an air hose that leads from the outer tube to a helium-powered driving unit and compressed air tank outside the body...
...Greatest Musical Ever Sung is a wash-your-dirty-dacron pageant based on the life and death and life of Jesus. The melodies are old show tunes like "There's No Business Like Show Business" fitted to ecclesiastic lyrics. ("Hello, Dolly!" is somehow rendered as "Hail, Mary!") All the nastiness that anyone might have dreamed of perpetrating while whittling away Sunday mornings in blue-lit religious classes is right there on stage; in fact, at several points during the show, one had the uncanny feeling that You-Know-Who would have turned over in His You-Know-What...
...septum (wall) between two of the heart's chambers was torn. Only a decade ago, there would have been little hope for the victims, but that is no longer true. In all four cases surgery was successful-including two instances in which the aorta was patched with a Dacron graft...
Marvin began his tour in Houston looking trim and hickory-hard, striding through the airport like a drill sergeant in Dacron. Trailing behind were his large pressagent, his little manager, Meyer Mishkin, and local studio men handing out photographs and toting bags. "Hey!" shouted a cab driver, clapping an arm around Marvin's shoulder. "Where's your horse...
...Baylor College of Medicine, who has worked on artificial hearts for ten years. He now had ready a device that might keep Karp alive for a week or two. It is about the same size as a natural heart and is made of Silastic (a silicone plastic), with Dacron cuffs for attachment to the "distributor cap," or blood-vessel connections, in the remnant of Karp's own heart. It is self-contained except for one essential ingredient: a power system to deliver a steady, pumping beat. This must come from an external console as big as a refrigerator standing...