Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret meetings. Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. was in and out of the President's office all day; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Arthur Radford hurried in through a side door, his aides carrying wooden easels and maps and charts covered with plastic blankets. On hand for two of the secret meetings was Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, along with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss. As the warm day's light began to fade across the trim White House lawns outside, the inner core of the National Security Council went into...
...years ago Harvard Medical Student Judah Folkman, working under famed Heart Surgeon Robert Gross, got the idea that holes between the ventricles of the human heart might be closed with plastic (polyethylene) patches. Like all such ideas, it was tried first on dogs. Last week in Boston Children's Medical Center, a mongrel named Airplane, with a strip of collie in his bar sinister, was dubbed "Dog Research Hero of the Year," invested with a new collar and silver medallion by Cardiologist Paul Dudley White for having helped to prove the operation feasible. Airplane now leads a pampered existence...
...more modern taste runs toward the plastic flasks which are unbreakable, although not very attractive. The silver flasks, or the glass ones covered with leather or plaid cloth, are more debonnaire, and more expensive...
...Navy last week broke the world balloon-altitude record long held by the Army,* but it did not do the job with unruffled dignity. Its helium-filled balloon, made of plastic film, and 128 ft. in diameter, rose without trouble from the same bowl-like depression near Rapid City, S. Dak. that the Army's record-setting flight used in 1935. Far below its partly expanded bag hung a spherical aluminum gondola stuffed with scientific apparatus. Inside were Lieut. Commanders Malcolm D. Ross and Morton L. Lewis, wearing man-from-Mars pressure suits and festooned with instruments to measure...
...sandhill cattle country of northwest Nebraska, and little by little the descent of the balloon decreased to a safer rate. As the gondola approached the ground, the crew detached the gasbag, which soared off on the wind. The gondola dropped the few remaining feet, its fall cushioned by a plastic shock absorber, and the two men from Mars stepped out. Almost at once a light airplane piloted by Don Higgins of Ainsworth, Neb. landed beside them...