Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble. In Bethlehem, 40 suspected members of El Fatah, the. Syrian-trained terrorist organization, were arrested as they met in a cafe. And throughout the new terri tories, Israeli soldiers continued their house-to-house search for arms. If so much as a pistol is found under a mattress, the soldiers clear out the inhabitants and coolly dynamite the offending house to smithereens...
...smouldering wet mattress poked out the window and then dropped to the steps below. A fireman stuck out his head, yelled, "Hey, did I hit anybody?" and then tossed out a chair cushion...
...fire apparently started when a cigarette left on a stuffed chair in room G-41 set the upholstery ablaze at about 9:15 p.m. No one was in the room at the time, and the fire spread to a foam-rubber mattress a few feet away...
...small from the burning mattress alerted people on the floor who sounded the entry fire alarm. A. Mark Mazer '69. one of the occupants of the room, came out of the adjoining suite to sce smoke pouring from under his door...
Last week, along with Scott's water mattress, another bedsore preventive was exhibited by the Stryker Corp. at the American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in San Francisco. Dr. Wayman Spence, a 29-year-old resident at Ohio State University Hospital, worked on the theory that "you don't have to float the whole body-just the butt." Spence observed that the body protects itself from friction by fatty tissues that move under pressure but return to their original shape when pressure is removed. As a substitute for natural cushions, he first tried placing wads of soft...