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...improve, say the space doctors, but not enough to permit their wearers to work freely in a vacuum for long periods of time. Dr. Fritz Haber of the School of Space Medicine believes that the whole space-suit idea will have to be abandoned. If space men want to float around outside their space ship (as they did in the movie, Destination Moon), they will have to stay inside rigid cylinders and do their work by remote-control devices operated from inside...
...major problems is leaky valves. There wasn't much that surgery could do about it. So I went back to the beginning, and one of the answers, obviously, was to put in a substitute valve." Dr. Hufnagel soon designed an artificial valve containing a plastic ball float, and began trying it on dogs. It worked...
When several of the dogs had survived for two years or more with plastic valves and no ill effects, Georgetown sponsored Dr. Hufnagel's work and the U.S. Public Health Service helped with funds. The valve, as perfected, is made of Plexiglas and contains a float the size of a mothball which rises and slips into one of three sockets in the side of the valve sleeve on the heart's upbeat, when blood is forced into the aorta. When the heart relaxes between beats, the ball falls into a seat and stops blood from leaking back into...
...lovely sisters, a father with his son and daughter. Among the figures are bronze flowers, bugs, dogs and a fat, barnyard goose. The whole group stands in a polished, dark granite pool, each statue set on a slender stalk above water level, so that they seem to drift and float across the calm water. Overlooking the figures, Sculptor Milles has placed a merry-looking angel standing guard with a flute and with head cocked attentively...
...passenger on the Hong Kong-Macao ferry last week was as weather-beaten, ageless and nondescript as a chunk of driftwood. Like the driftwood, he seemed doomed to float from shore to shore on the China Sea forever. He had no passport. His name, he said, is Michael Patrick O'Brien, but he readily admitted: "Back home in Washington and Oregon, they call me Steven Stanley Regan." He never knew his father; his mother was Hungarian; the only identification he possesses is a Red Cross certificate which calls him "a stateless Irishman...