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...Lenin's Banner, official organ of the Moscow District party, bared the Great Nipple Shortage. Last week, after tracing the problem from drugstore to Kremlin level, a pair of reporters revealed that there is not a single soska (rubber baby-bottle nipple) to be had in all the Moscow oblast. Although last year's central economic plan called for the production of 30 million nipples, only 12 million were actually manufactured.* The crusading reporters declared that the only plant making surgical rubber was denied authorization to increase production by the planners...
When the first entirely artificial heart is developed, it will probably be made of Silastic. This is the material that Houston's Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey used for the closest approximation to such an organ ever tried in a human patient. It was a substitute for the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, and it worked for 3½ days, until the patient died of other causes (TIME...
...heart is the first organ that the cold blood reaches after it is dripped in through an arm vein, and the heart is sensitive to cold. Excess chilling can easily cause it to stop or go into useless twitching (fibrillation) from which the patient may never recover...
Bacteria normally multiply by sexless fission-they simply split in two. Still, scientists believe that some kinds of bacteria occasionally manage a kind of sexual mating. It is almost impossible to catch them in the act, though, because they have no special sex organs, and often when they cling together it is not for love. But at least one kind of microscopic bug has a sex life with a difference. Professors Pavel Nemec and Vojtech Bystricky of the Slovak Polytechnical University in Bratislava report that the Caulobacter, a harmless bacterium found in soil, possesses a multi-purpose organ that...
Emboldened by a burgeoning prosperity, and by the failure of Goldwater to make a reasonable and acceptable case for his own brand of conservatism, Johnson played the electorate like a mighty pipe organ. He drowned out concern over the Bobby Baker scandal and the war in Viet Nam with platitudes about peace, prosperity and prudence. While Goldwater ranted about TVA, social security, the Supreme Court and conventional nuclear weapons, Johnson issued the soothing assurances of a benign protector who promised to save the nation from the welter of international chaos with the sure touch of sober responsibility...