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...Nutter and Dr. R. A. Massumi recommend is diazepam, which under its trade name, Valium, is among the best-known, best-selling tranquilizers in the world today. Psychiatric patients take it by swallowing tablets, but the G.W. doctors recommend giving it by intravenous injection to patients with heartbeat abnormalities. As a result, they say, the patients are sedated gently but so deeply that they wake up with no memory of the jolting shock, and with heartbeats restored to normal...
...monkeys had been anesthetized before the test, and then were killed painlessly before they could recover consciousness. Autopsies showed that whiplash bruised some of the animals' brains, caused swelling and hemorrhaging. In several cases, it also injured nerve centers in the brain stem that are important in controlling heartbeat, circulation and breathing...
...Gordo" Cooper and "Pete" Conrad suffered any really bad effects from the prolonged weightlessness and confinement in their spaceship, they appeared to have nothing worse than stiff joints, heavy beards and nagging itches. Cooper apparently came through better than on his first, 22-orbit flight two years ago; his heartbeat averaged 89 then, about 70 this time...
...capacity to become a celestial mechanic. A sighting device went on the blink; Cooper discovered that the trouble was a short circuit, repaired it with a three-inch-long screwdriver. Conrad fixed a pneumatic belt that was wrapped around his thigh in order to stimulate his heartbeat and circulation. Even when necessary components failed beyond repair, the astronauts managed to accomplish many of their assignments. Although a faulty fuel-cell system prevented them from making their planned rendezvous with another object in space, the astronauts maneuvered their craft with such precision that they could have sought out and entered...
...sing our songs," says Herman, cheerfully explaining away such hits as the million-selling Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. The second collection of what Herman correctly calls "the simplest music there is" includes his teen love ditties, Silhouettes and Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, as well as I'm Henry VIII, I Am ("I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before...