Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oxygen Debt. In a room that looks more like a home-economics lab than a hospital ward, women wash and iron clothes, bake custards and brownies, make dresses on a sewing machine. Men work in carpentry, repair the sewing machine (the actual trade of one patient), walk to and from a desk carrying stacks of books, use filing cabinets. Pulse checks are made before, during and after any exertion, but the most valuable gauge of heart strain is a gadget called a "respiration gasmeter," which tells Dr. Steinberg most of what he wants to know...
...monoxide quickly after a return to breathing pure air. The Yale neurologists say this may not always be true after repeated exposures, and certainly not for all people: the New Haven cop had a high blood level of monoxide 30 hours after exposure to the fumes. European experiments with lab animals confirm the growing suspicion that leaky stovepipes, rusted-out mufflers, and running a car for even a few minutes inside a garage may involve greater and more subtle dangers than doctors have realized...
Paris Match, the French picture magazine, chartered a Caravelle jet to fly 55 staffers and a photo processing lab to the Holy Land. RAI, Italy's government-owned broadcasting system, borrowed an L.S.T. from the Italian Navy, debarked 35 vehicles and 245 men. Tiny Lebanon managed to deploy a journalistic force of 60. Even Tass, the Russian news service, and the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, put correspondents on the scene. All told, some 1,200 newsmen from 34 countries converged on the first papal visit to the Holy Land. Inevitably, the press and its photographers made much...
Delicate Tasks. The orbiting lab is still a drawing-board dream, and few details have been settled on for sure. It will be a pressurized cylinder, about 25 ft. long and 10 ft. in diameter -approximately the size of a small house trailer. It will be attached to the blunt heat shield of one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's two-man Gemini capsules, and it will be heaved aloft by a hefty Titan III rocket, which, with its two solid-fuel boosters, develops as much as 2,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...
Once in orbit, the astronauts riding the Gemini's cramped capsule will open a hatch in the heat shield and crawl into the lab, where efficient life-support equipment will let them safely shuck their cumbersome space suits. They will have plenty of room to move around, and by making due allowance for zero gravity, they will be able to perform elaborate and delicate tasks. After several weeks in the lab, they will return to the capsule and close the hatch in the heat shield. After detaching the MOL and leaving it in orbit, they will ignite their retrorockets...