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...name triumphantly, over and over again he radioed, "I am eagle, I am eagle." Once he added for any and all listeners: "I wish you had it so good." As the earth twisted beneath him-22° with each orbit-putting him successively over new continents and nations (see diagram), he proudly transmitted appropriate messages: Master Sergeant James...
...kill quickly as a stroke or a heart attack-has no everyday English name. It is pulmonary embolism, in which the flow of used blood is blocked, nearly always by clots, in the pulmonary artery leading from the heart's lower right chamber to the lungs (see diagram). Medicine and surgery have been helpless to deal with severe cases of pulmonary embolism. Now a team of Houston doctors suggests that if victims can be operated upon promptly, a number may be saved with the aid of a heart-lung machine...
Take Notice. The Pentagon is trying to find new formulas. The Navy, which has shown how to move fast and effi ciently with its Polaris program, is developing a management-control system nicknamed "Mascot." Mascot's goal: to give on one giant diagram a clear picture of the function of each contractor and sub contractor, which ones have to be speeded up to keep the project on schedule, and what the effect of speedups or delays would be on costs. And in a contract recently signed with RCA for the SAINT satellite-inspection system, the Air Force stipulated that...
...first problem is the improvement of basic techniques for eliminating illiteracy, and the second is the elimination of mechanical illiteracy" among people at the educational level of "pre-Roman Anglo-Saxons," Bruner noted. He cited the importance of teaching the natives show to read a diagram and dig a ditch" in the overall picture of the development of the country...
...American Machine & Foundry annual meeting in Manhattan last week, stockholders strolling by a color cutaway diagram of the company's complex new automatic bread-baking machine were startled to see parts of the still picture seem to move. Before their surprised eyes the machine showed how it mixes bread dough, pops it into an oven, and shoots out golden-brown loaves. Shareholders at the giant American Telephone & Telegraph annual meeting in Chicago (see State of Business) were treated to another picture in which Echo satellites seemed to move across the sky bouncing radio waves back to earth...