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...spectacles and is known as "Granite Face" among East Europeans. "If he were not so utterly dedicated to orthodoxy, one could say he was totally passionless," says one Communist diplomat. "He is fussy to the point of absurdity," reports another. Before his aides dust his desk, they make a diagram showing precisely where everything is placed. After dusting, everything is returned to its proper spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Russians' New Man in East Berlin | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...diagram "Protein Synthesis," your artist showed the nucleic-acid fragment UGA as a "three-letter word" that "codes for one amino acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1971 | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

Though there is still a long way to go. progress to date has been impressive. In 1946. Montreal Surgeon Arthur Vineberg, figuring that the internal mammary artery (see diagram) is dispensable, carefully cut it away from the breastbone, left its upper end in place, and implanted its lower end in the left ventricle, the heart's primary pumping chamber. A decade later, Dr. Charles P. Bailey, then in Philadelphia, developed a procedure called endarterectomy, in which he opened a blocked coronary artery and reamed out a plug of accumulated cholesterol with a device resembling a crochet hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Hearts, New Plumbing | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...CORK LINING. Ettore Sottsass Jr., a thoughtful Milanese designer intent upon creating an environment that is a "diagram of psychic processes, a therapeutic act," is now completing a Milan apartment lined with cork-faced linoleum, without furniture save for kitchen and bath fixtures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The New Room: No Furniture | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

What are the differences among these tires? In the bias-ply tires, the rubber tread is attached to a casing made of crisscross layers of rayon or nylon (see diagram). The belted models are built the same way, but in addition they have two or more rigid belts of fiber glass encircling the tire under the tread. Helped by these extra belts, the tire grips the road better, wears up to 15% or 20% longer, is less likely to be punctured. In the radials, the casing cords run in straight lines instead of a crisscross pattern, and as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Battle of the Belts | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

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