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...Alarm Clock. When Hunt and crew had a rat sleeping peacefully, they recorded its heartbeats on an electrocardiograph (300-350 beats per min.). Then they squirted it with a beam of silent, invisible, 250,000-volt X rays. In about 12 sec., the rat woke up, sometimes going into a violent "state of alarm." Its heartbeat would speed up too. But if the radiation continued for long, the rat would go to sleep again, like a human grown accustomed to a steady night-time sound...
...belong to us Spartans." Air Force Major Slayton. 38, wanted the folks back home to understand that as far as he was concerned, there was nothing wrong with his health or his heart -despite the fact that an Air Force medical board had checked on his ''erratic heartbeat" and knocked him off the schedule as the next U.S. space traveler (TiME...
...erratic heartbeat had been no secret long before he was chosen for the next orbital flight. "Your support in the continuous struggle to force decisions based on fact rather than fear." he told the mayor, "is greatly appreciated." NASA officials were "a little bit surprised." but they planned to take no action against Major Slayton. Said a spokesman: ''His point of view was that of a disappointed person who missed out on a flight he wanted very badly...
Scrubbed as pilot of the U.S.'s next orbital shot because of "erratic heartbeat" was Astronaut Donald ("Deke") Slayton, 38. Aware of his condition since 1959 and subject to fortnightly recurrences ("I get rid of them by running two or three miles"), the tenacious Air Force major was belatedly-and perhaps only temporarily-grounded by an Air Force medical board last week. The decision was clearly motivated more by fear of bad publicity if Slayton's flight should go amiss than by doubts over his capacity, and understandably left the astronaut "damned disappointed." Sympathized his replacement, Navy Lieut...
...intensified by the state of Müller's health. Since the age of 13 he had suffered from attacks of rheumatic fever. In 1954 a plastic valve was inserted into his heart to replace a damaged natural valve. The new valve made a ticking noise with every heartbeat, a cruel reminder that the operation had been only partially successful and that time was running out. Four years later, having worked feverishly to the end, Jan Müller was dead...