Word: oxygenate
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...which Ford asked. Saigon troops had a new type of American-supplied bomb, the Defense Department acknowledged--an "asphyxiation bomb." Officially called canister bomb, the units, or CBUs, and originally intended as a device for exploding mines in front of advancing troops, these bombs absorbed all the oxygen within a 200-yard radius. At Xuan Loc, last week's main battlefield, hundreds of PRG soldiers were said to have died of suffocation...
...Handler went on to make a strong plea for cooperation in space. He explained how much easier rescues would be if the two space powers developed a common docking mechanism. In Marooned, the cosmonaut had to leave his ship and take a risky "space walk" before he could deliver oxygen to the Americans. The point was not lost on the Russians, who then were having trouble with their Soyuz spacecraft. They promised Handler they would recommend the idea to their political leaders...
...slept, then catching a few hours' sleep himself while his partner watched the ward. But at 7 p.m. the hospital admitted a heart-attack victim, and Condon's plans quickly changed. While the other intern took over the ward, Condon and the resident administered powerful drugs and oxygen to the patient. When he failed to respond, they inserted a tube in his windpipe to assist his breathing. In an effort to ease the burden on the patient's heart and lungs, they drew off some of his blood and then infused only the red cells back...
...grow less friendly when Norman Wexler is airborne. Last week the Hollywood screenwriter (Joe, Serpico) allegedly bit United Air Lines Stewardess Laura Mansuto on the arm during an argument aloft. The trouble began, say airline officials, when Wexler insulted a cardiac patient who was being outfitted with special oxygen apparatus. After an unscheduled landing in Denver, the writer was tossed off the plane and into the arms of waiting police. In 1972, Wexler had drawn a quick jail stay and a year's probation when, in another mid-flight outburst, he held up a magazine cover of Richard Nixon...
...were about heroes, not average men; and the world of stoic virtue and exemplary action that unfolds in them is far removed from the reality of the Revolution. The fate of David's portrait of Lavoisier and His Wife was instructive. He rendered this savant, the discoverer of oxygen, in heroic terms, though muted by domesticity; like Homer or Dante, Lavoisier is seen with symbolic appurtenances (the magnificent still life of scientific instruments does duty for the bardic wreath and scroll), presided over by his wife as Muse. Yet Lavoisier was guillotined in the Terror, and the painting...