Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week President Philip Sporn of the American Electric Power Co. Inc. announced that his company has adopted a new "bird" technique of working on high-tension lines. The lineman does not climb the tower. Instead, he sits in a plastic bucket and is raised to the wire by a truck-mounted boom made of insulating fiber glass. When he reaches the wire, he clamps to it a cable that is connected to metal mesh lining the bucket. This operation sounds suicidal, but it is not. The current moves into the mesh, charging it along with the lineman...
...vocations range from lawyer to plastic surgeon to gynecologist to liquor importer, to magazine editor; the long lists of accomplishments for each former manager are impressive...
...Careful Eye. Unlike Frank Lloyd Wright, designer of Manhattan's spectacular Guggenheim, Architect Johnson was willing to concede that a museum's first function is to display not itself but its art. His simple classical building is essentially a large airy courtyard covered with a coffered plastic skylight and surrounded by a graceful balcony that turns into a second floor. Designed with a careful eye on U.S. art museums' growing tendency to become civic centers, the Utica museum boasts both a theater-in-the-round and a special hideaway for the kids-a room decked out with...
...from the skull. (An arteriogram-an X ray of the brain's blood vessels involving the injection of radio-opaque dye into the patient-will have already spotted the site of the aneurysm.) Then, using an artist's airbrush, Selverstone sprays the aneurysm with a mixture of plastics that combine to form a coating similar to Saran Wrap. This is tough, but too thin to give full protection against further leakage or bursting. So he sprays on a second layer, of epoxy plastic. The result: enclosure of the aneurysm in a capsule far tougher than the natural artery...
...artery together and stitch them: 2) make a slit in the side of the artery, insert a special instrument, ream out the fatty debris and close the incision with a couple of stitches; 3) slit the artery lengthwise along the blocked stretch and put a long oval plastic patch in the wall to increase its diameter; 4) make an artificial detour for the blood by splicing a length of plastic tube into the artery, above and below the blocked section...