Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekends in the country, Donald Brooks will turn her into a swaggering Robin Hood with leather leggings and jaunty plumed hats by Milliner Archie Eason, worn perhaps with a short, checked polo coat and matching shorts, or with a pony-skin raincoat. If she would rather be Tom Sawyer, Chester Weinberg has just the thing: avocado green velvet overalls that come to midcalf, and are topped by a lace-trimmed blouse. With George Stavropoulos, she can play the Greek goddess in classical floor-length gowns trailing yards of filmy chiffon...
...fierce-tempered Panamanian who prides himself on being a fine judge of wine and women (his wife is a former Miss Universe) as well as horse flesh, Manny Ycaza is a throwback to the old hell-for-leather days of racing- before sharp-eyed stewards and patrol cameras- when herding, crowding, blocking, intimidating, or even rapping rival riders across the ribs with a whip were part of the game. Understandably, he has few friends among his fellow jocks. Nor is it very surprising that in eleven years, he has been "set down," or suspended, for a total of 608 days...
...versatile a natural body component should be ideal for replacing corneas, blood vessels, valves, and perhaps even whole organs. But practical considerations have long frustrated theory. In humans, animal collagen almost certainly would trigger inflammatory reactions and rejection mechanisms. Now, through the unlikely partnership of a Japanese shoe-leather company, which was making sausage casings on the side, and the Rogosin Laboratories of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, it looks as though animal collagen may yet become the ideal material for many medical uses...
...studies reveal natural collagen as three strands of molecules twisted together like rope. The strands are short, and many have to be joined end to end to make up the body's long collagen fibers. Dr. Tomio Nishihara, a physical chemist who heads research for the Japan Leather Co., and Dr. Francis O. Schmitt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thought there must be something on the ends of the basic molecules that enabled them to couple. Dr. Albert L. Rubin and an M.I.T. team set about testing the theory. They found that each collagen strand has a tail...
...reconstituted collagen, the Japan Leather Co. uses odds and ends of calf skin left over when the hides have been cut for making shoes. After weeks of soaking and washing hide in various chemicals, including enzymes, to remove the linkage tails, Dr. Nishihara pours collagen into thin sheets resembling cellophane. The resulting membrane makes fine, easily digestible sausage casing. It also gave the Rogosin Labs' Dr. Rubin and Dr. Kurt Stenzel an idea for its first medical application-use in the artificial kidney, which has a filter membrane of sausage-casing cellophane. In laboratory glassware the collagen membrane...