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Died. Preston Thomas Tucker, 53, fast-talking auto designer who tantalized the car-starved U.S. public in 1946 with plans for the revolutionary (air-cooled rear engine, fuel injection, 130 m.p.h.) Tucker Torpedo, went bankrupt after producing a few hand-built models; of lung cancer; in Ypsilanti, Mich. Visionary Tucker was cleared in 1950 of U.S. charges of mail fraud and SEC violations, claimed Government meddling and malevolent auto tycoons did him in, by 1955 was riding another rear-engined dream, trying to promote $2,000,000 to build...
...trouble with the iron lung and its portable little brother, the chest respirator, is that they make the patient breathe in a fixed rhythm and give him just the same amount of air each time. Now researchers at Nashville's Vanderbilt University report an electronic device which can be hooked up to either type of respirator and lets the patient breathe more naturally-when his own nervous system dictates, and as deeply. It works by electrodes taped to the chest: they pick up electrical nerve impulses intended for the paralyzed breathing muscles, divert them to an electrical amplifier which...
...upon them. But visitors are often astonished to find him so aged and apparently frail. He seems shorter than his 5 ft. 7 in., older than his 51 years. These are the marks of his lifelong apprenticeship to Communism. Years of imprisonment in his youth left him with a lung ailment, a police bullet has permanently stiffened his right knee, and there are hints of unspecified internal organic disorders. The later years of disgrace and isolation have softened his voice, and he no longer speaks loudly as he once did. Reading in isolation has improved his grasp of ideas...
...stringy, tireless naval officer from the Ukraine named Vladimir Kuts countered for the Russians in the lung-busting 10,000-meter grind, staying in front all the way, and finishing with an Olympic record (28:45.6) in a final sprint that left experts gaping...
...oleaginous (260 Ibs.) London-born menace of stage (Witness for the Prosecution) and screen (Great Expectations), who began trouping (1921) with London's Old Vic, won the 1955 Antoinette Perry Award for the year's best featured performance in his role of defense counsel in Witness; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...