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...million exercise was officially dubbed a Loss of Fluid test (LOFT). It was held in the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. As some 200 scientists and technicians paced anxiously, the countdown began. On signal, two blowdown pipe valves snapped open, simulating a rupture. In a flash, reactor cooling fluid escaped. As the core's temperature soared, the secondary cooling system also failed, again according to plan. Then after only 17 seconds, the third system's coolant began pouring hundreds of gallons of water on the hot core. Its temperature, which had jumped to 516° C (960?...
Their coats were off, their vests open, their faces red, their voices emphatic. They were finishing a bottle of corrosive bootlegged whisky and imploring the bellboy, "Say, son, can you get us some more of this embalming fluid?" They were smoking large cigars and dropping ashes and stubs on the carpet. With windy guffaws they were telling stories. They were, in fact, males in a happy state of nature...
From there on, after about a week's training the patient can take over himself by attaching to the tube a small plastic bag containing two liters (about two quarts) of a special solution similar to the dialysate, or blood-cleansing fluid, used in kidney machines. The patient raises the bag to shoulder level or above, and the fluid flows down into the abdomen, bathing the peritoneal membrane, which contains many small blood vessels. The tube is then clamped off, and the patient folds up the empty bag into a neat package that he wears beneath the clothing...
Inside the abdominal cavity, a complex chemical movement, as in conventional hemodialysis, slowly begins. Toxic wastes and water from the bloodstream pass through the peritoneal membrane into the fluid. The process is allowed to continue for about five hours. Then the patient unwraps the empty plastic bag, lowers it to the floor, releases the clamp and lets the waste-laden fluid drain out of the abdominal cavity. Subsequently, a new bag of fluid is attached, and the procedure is repeated three times more at four-to eight-hour intervals every day. While the blood is being cleansed, patients...
DIED. Lennie Tristano, 59, pianist, teacher and composer, who was a pioneer of cool, light, fluid jazz; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. A Chicago boy blinded by measles at nine, Tristano later experimented with welding classical music to jazz and developed his own style of long melodic lines and shifting harmonies. Organizing several combos, he allowed each musician to play his own melody in his own key and rhythm with results that anticipated by a decade the free jazz experiments of Ornette Coleman...