Word: lid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany's Dr. Julius Mader, 40, the author of several other, widely unnoticed exposes of Western intelligence operations, Who's Who is a pocket-size, 600-page directory that lists more than 3,000 Americans who supposedly work for the CIA. "My book," says Mader, "blows the lid off the American secret service...
Insane or not, it was certainly explicit. At the preview, a large, coffinlike object, covered with black fur and with a slit across the lid, was rolled onto the museum floor. Out from its pink, uterine interior stepped Phyllis Kronhausen, 39, dressed in a see-through minidress and nothing else. Neither she nor a stark-naked violinist offered much competition to the art, which included erotic Indian sculpture, a Guinea fertility goddess, a Rembrandt etching of the artist and his wife disporting in a four-poster bed, a Picasso engraving of a couple copulating, and a vast variety of dildos...
...Richard Ashfield's coronary patients. To administer oxygen under pressure, Dr. Ashfield helped to design a device that looks like a minature submarine with a bubble top. Inside it, the patient lies on a foam-rubber bed or can lean half upright against a back rest. The lid is tightly shut by a series of strong sealing locks around...
...working efficiently. For his tests he has chosen only patients who have had severe, potentially fatal heart attacks. He puts them in the chamber for a minimum of four days (one man stayed in for ten days). The patient breathes pure oxygen under pressure for two hours; then the lid is opened, and he breathes ordinary air for one hour. This cycle is repeated around the clock. Of Ashfield's first 40 patients, only three have died during treatment and two turned out to have had both major coronary arteries blocked. These two were among twelve who were...
Most small countries, too, from The Netherlands to Sweden, have nervously watched their economies follow the lead of their best customer. And now the future looks more secure. Swedish economists, for example, are upping their forecast from 3.5% to 4% growth for 1968, despite a tight lid on wage increases and new construction...