Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already doing her heart's work and also cooling her blood. It continued to do so while the surgeons put clamps on the aorta both above and below the constriction. Dr. Newman made an inch-long cut in the aorta's wall and stitched in a plastic (Teflon) gusset, two-thirds of an inch wide at the base. This made the great artery a uniform width from the aortic valve to its big bend. Ro Anne's temperature hit a low of 77°, then a double electric shock restarted her heart. The pump-cooler was disconnected...
Sentries stood 24-hour guard at her cabin door on the S.S. France. She was tied to a berth and encased in an airtight 160-lb. plastic container impervious to salt and water. No one would insure her against harm because she is priceless. But a warm welcome awaits the Mona Lisa on her arrival this week at Washington's National Gallery. Officials are fiddling with the thermostats to duplicate the Louvre's temperature and humidity so that all will be well on Jan. 8 when the painting goes on display for three weeks. Back home, the rhubarb...
...constituents, they leave it more valuable than when they started grazing on it. One ton of petroleum thus consumed produces about one ton of dry material that is half protein When fresh the stuff is white and tasteless, but as it ages it turns brown, smells like a new plastic toy and develops a delicately chemical flavor. Some samples according to French experimenters, taste like slightly rancid cheese...
...water from a hot mineral spring. Trouble was, swimmers chafed their elbows on the pool's rough sides, and bacilli moved into the broken skin. There were at least 262 cases of "sore elbow" in the area. Doctors who tried antibiotics, anti-tuberculosis drugs, X ray, vitamins and plastic surgery did no better than nature. Most of the sores healed after a few months. But after they healed, 82% of the victims showed positive reactions to tests for tuberculosis even though virtually none of the children...
...suits. Exhausted by peeling away at the bikini, and prevented by the limits of good taste and state laws from going any farther, sportswear designers have reinstated the one-piece suit. But with a difference. This year it is "the shiny wet look." Fashioned of black materials that are plastic-smooth and neon-bright-vinyl patent, stretch satin, and glistening nylon -the suits look dripping wet before the wearer touches toe to sea, thereby saving her the horror of actually going through with...