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...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...
Harper, a Tennessee-born engineer who took over Alcoa's fortunes in 1965, is equally optimistic about packaging, which accounts for 9.5% of sales. Largely responsible is the company's development-and advertising promotion -of the snap-away aluminum lid for beverage and food cans. With most beer and soft-drink cans now sporting aluminum pop-tops, Alcoa and the rest of the industry have begun pushing sales of cans made entirely of aluminum. Another promising market is aerospace. Alcoa provided most of the 1,000,000 Ibs. of aluminum used in the Saturn V moon rocket...
...good part of the evening is pure vaudevillian slapstick-coffin-lid play, unscheduled entrances, involuntary exits, stashing the money where the corpse was and vice versa. The macabre jocularity involves such bits of business as tossing the dead mother's dentures across the room as casually as a pack of cigarettes. All of this demands the split-second timing of a Feydeau farce, and unfortunately Director Derek Gold-by is no Mike Nichols...
Defensively it was Johnson and Kanuth who stood out. In the first Harvard-Yale game this season, in New Haven, Frank Wisneski tore the Crimson apart with solid long-range shooting. But Saturday Johnson put the lid on, holding "Wizzer" to six points...
...promised to produce something of a political miracle: to hold state taxes steady and at the same time make Florida "first in the nation in education." State educators dismissed the incompatible promises as idle oratory-only to discover that Kirk was not kidding-at least about the tax lid. He vetoed $130 million worth of special appropriations for the schools voted by the 1967 legislature...