Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ballads and such. Rhythm has always supplied a basic human need since that greatest of all songsters, Homer. Somewhere along the line, however, a queerly shaped instrument called "saxophone" came into being. By blowing one's breath into the smaller aperture of said instrument, thence through a wood or plastic sliver called a "reed," it is possible to make a most magnificent array of nearly organic sounds. Probably the most frequently imitated sounds are animal grunts, shrill screams of pleasure, and all variety of passionate outcries. Needless to say, a mere finger-tapper has become a man representative...
...Hospital in Boston has developed an artificial eye that moves and twinkles. Made of plastic (with rayon threads imbedded to look like veins), it has a magnet built in. It moves in obedience to another magnet set in the muscles that formerly controlled the lost...
...Parkinson's disease. His earlier method (TIME, June 29, 1953), still risky and controversial, was to shut off one of the brain arteries. But many patients over 55 cannot tolerate this drastic technique, and it is among them that Parkinsonism is commonest. Now, Dr. Cooper works a plastic tube into the grey brain ball, injects procaine (which checks the tremor temporarily) to be sure he has reached the right spot, then injects absolute alcohol to do the job permanently. Of the first few cases, more than half have been freed of tremor and rigidity for many months...
...After five months' study of Deborah Marie and Christine Mary Andrews, joined at the tops of their heads (TIME, Oct. 18), doctors at Chicago's Mercy Hospital decided to begin plastic surgery this week, with the actual separation tentatively timed for October. Superficially the girls' case resembles the famed Brodie twins (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952 et seq.), but doctors are confident that they do not share any major blood vessels, so both have a good chance of survival...
Self-Solder. For the amateur solderer the Hercules Chemical Co. of New York City put on the market Swif, a regular tin-lead solder in a plastic tube. The do-it-yourselfer squeezes on Swif as he would toothpaste, then seals the joint with heat from a match, cigarette lighter or electric iron. Price: 59½ per 1½-oz. tube...