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...make reinstallation easy, silicone plugs were inserted in the openings of the tubes; a flap of skin was closed over the ends. Litwak's first patient and four subsequent ones are now home recovering from their operations, their hearts working at full capacity. Furthermore, they may be better protected than most heart patients against a relapse. If their hearts need some help in the future, all Litwak should have to do is make a simple skin incision and reconnect the pump. The plumbing is still in place...
...watching Carter in action. He is a shy man with a quizzical manner. He looks uncomfortable even in a jacket. When he does take the stage-say, to deliver a few explanatory words about his music, as he did last week at the Composers Quartet recital-he tends to flap his hands and remain winningly untheatrical...
...plane approached the speed of sound in steep dives, the air would begin piling up along the leading edges of its wings, creating shock waves that reduced lift and sent the craft out of control. Johnson's innovative solution: the addition of a braking flap on the underside of the wings. When the flap was lowered, it smoothed the flow of air and restored control. To overcome the P-38's heavy "stick loads" or stiffness of controls during high-speed maneuvers, he was equally creative: he introduced hydraulic boosters like those now used in power steering...
...Nixon loyalists around this city, it probably seemed hopeless: there was no apparent order, and very little secrecy. But it all represented, one would hope, the first whiff of the Federal Government again beginning to function as it should. Right or wrong, Ford was making firm decisions. The CIA flap, however embarrassing, indicated that the U.S. was coming to grips with the realities of the world and the national mood. Henry Kissinger was being reduced from God to just a very good Cabinet officer. The fact that Rockefeller's $182 million was being laid out for scrutiny suggested there...
Danger to Fetuses. Recounting the cyclamate flap that shook the agency in the late 1960s, Verrett notes that as early as 1954 a National Academy of Sciences panel voiced doubts about the safety of the sweetener, which Abbott Laboratories had been authorized to market in 1951. But no further steps were taken by the FDA, and by 1968 a total of 17 million pounds of cyclamate was being consumed annually. Japanese researchers had already reported finding that in some people's bodies cyclamate breaks down in part to cyclohexylamine (CHA), which is known to be dangerous, especially to fetuses...