Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks like a nursery-size flying saucer. But poking up where the antenna ought to be is a rubber nipple, and inside is tepid baby formula. The strange contraption is nothing more far out than a new plastic baby bottle called Beniflex, designed by Mead Johnson Laboratories to simplify infant feeding and provide added safeguards against nursery bacteria. As more and more U.S. hospitals fight to beat down rising costs and rampant infections, the oddly shaped dispensers are beginning to replace the standard glass bottles...
More than just a new bottle, Beniflex is an entire infant-feeding system. Everything about it is presterilized and disposable after a single use. Ready-to-use formulas supplied in quart cans are drained into the bottle through a plastic tube inserted by needle into the nipple -a process that takes only 15 seconds, and can be done right in the nursery. There is no more tedious measuring and mixing of formulas, no overnight refrigeration, no rewarming or washing and sterilizing of bottles for reuse. To buy and prepare Beniflex costs only 14? per unit, about the same as present...
Second most popular island is Kauai, where Promoter Lyle Guslander's Coco Palms resort has become the bellwether for hotel operations on other islands. A low, sleek structure whose two long arms embrace a central lagoon, Coco Palms features local color. Bed-lamp shades are plastic copies of the feathered helmets kings once wore, bathroom basins consist of giant clamshells, and guests are called to meals by a leather-lunged islander blowing into a conch shell. Another Gus-lander development, the 22-month-old Hanalei Plantation, is situated on a promontory that was used...
...news was that exactly one year ago, red-haired Everett Knowles Jr. had his arm completely severed when a freight train threw him against a bridge abutment. Though several similar operations have been tried since then, the reimplantation of "Red"' Knowles's arm by a team of plastic surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital is still the most successful case involving a whole limb...
...begin, but Ambassador Niven-gnawing his mustache to denote deep thought-counsels them to stay put, walk softly and hope for the best. Soon hordes of murderous Boxers swarm over the compound, knifing, shooting, burning. Imperial Chinese troops join the attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning her emeralds for food and drugs. On her way back...