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...high Van Allen Belt. Washington's answer is its own Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a bus-sized vehicle scheduled to be launched in 1969 in which crews would live and work for a month at a time. In case Russia presses the challenge, the U.S. is experimenting with a laser weapon that has no recoil and therefore could be safely fired from a spacecraft...
...plan: a miniaturized submarine with a crew of shrunken specialists (led by Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch) is injected into the carotid artery by hypodermic needle, with orders to navigate the bloodstream to the stricken area, where a surgeon (Arthur Kennedy) will excise the clot with an itsy-bitsy laser...
...climax comes at the site of the clot, where the navigator (Donald Pleasence) turns out to be an enemy agent, hijacks the sub, and tries to kill the patient by ramming a neural ganglion. Not a second too soon, Hemonaut Boyd sinks the sub with the laser gun. The villain is then devoured, head first, by a white cell that resembles a large, aggressive hominy grit. Whereupon the survivors follow the optic nerve until they squirt out of the tear duct and are rescued from a teardrop that looks like Lake Michigan. And then back, BACK, BACK to normal size...
...argued that Norway was the only place he could do it and got a subsidy from NASA. Living with his wife and young daughter in a cottage near Oslo, Geophysicist Giorgio Fiocco, 35, spends sporting days paddling a canoe around the fiord and scientific nights examining "noctilucent" clouds by laser radar. Yale Physiologist Jose Delgado, 50, the man who can make bulls stop charging by planting electrodes in their brains, is off to Moscow, a favored academic watering hole, for a psychology conference...
Since the days when the stethoscope and blood-pressure cuff were the only instruments that most doctors used, medical technology has acquired a huge array of machines - cryoprobes, air-driven bone saws, laser-beam knives, nuclear reactors to irradiate brain tumors. No less troublesome than the complexity of the devices is the lack of standardization: diathermy machines made by two manufacturers for the same purpose have dials calibrated on different scales, so doctors must translate one to the other for comparisons. And there is no assurance that either scale or machine is accurate...