Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Permanently implanted in these patients' forearms are two plastic tubes, one leading into an artery, the other into a vein. Once or twice a week the patients go to the hospital, where the tubes are hooked up to the artificial kidney. Their blood flows through one of its chambers, and body poisons pass through a cellophane sheet into the second chamber's purifying bath ("dialysate"). The average treatment lasts twelve hours...
...Food and Drug Administration had reassuring news last week for the 5,000,000 contact-lens wearers in the U.S., many of whom were fearful that something in the plastic might damage their eyes or even cause blindness. The scare originated a month ago with a report from a Boston ophthalmologist that he had tracked down 14 cases of blindness or near blindness among contact wearers and several hundred more of eye damage, all within three years. There was speculation that the damage might have come from impurities such as free acid in the methyl methacrylate plastic (akin to Plexiglas...
...inscrutable fact is that raincoats are made to be either stylish or serviceable, never both at once. The customer concerned with really keeping dry is stuck with rubber or plastic versions. Both would look more suitable on filling-station attendants than on girls. They are also...
Down the Neck. As for hats, the situation is no better. Scarves are perky as can be, but as waterproof as sponges. Hoods, helmets, bonnets and the currently chic sou'wester hats are serviceable, but leave the hair underneath a disaster area. Alternative? The nowstandard plastic rain hood, which folds away to nothing and can be carted around in the smallest purse...
...circuits are tested automatically, and their resistance units are trimmed precisely by sandblasts spurting through nozzles as small as hypodermic needles. The finished modules are sealed in plastic and mounted on thin cards that are stacked tightly to form the inner works of the computer...