Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret of her progress is embedded in her heart. It is like a miniature bird cage. At the point where the aorta (the body's main artery) begins, surgeons have removed part of nature's valve, which was diseased, and replaced it with an ingenious steel-and-plastic gadget...
Surgeon Dwight E. Harken, 49, operated on Mrs. Richardson to free the valve leaflets. Radical as it was, this surgery gave only temporary relief. Blood still poured back into the heart. What Dr. Harken wanted was an artificial valve. Plastic valves have been developed by Washington's Dr. Charles Hufnagel, but they cannot be placed as close to the heart as surgeons would like, and they click audibly. Dr. Harken went to work with designers and technicians at Davol Rubber Co. in Providence, and they devised what he calls a "caged ball valve...
...Plastic artificial roses that actually smell went on sale at Macy's this week. The man who put the fragrance in the flowers is Jack Barry, onetime master of ceremonies and co-owner of Twenty One and Tic Tac Dough...
...Streets are deserted by 9 o'clock at night, and people are huddled behind shuttered windows straining to hear the sound of explosions. Next day facts and rumors are traded: a car is reported to have been shot up by Reds in the city's outskirts; a plastic bomb is said to have been hurled into a cafe; a police roundup is claimed to have netted hundreds of suspects. The 2,500 U.S. citizens living in South Viet Nam have been "advised" not to expose themselves needlessly by traveling at night...
Died. Sir Archibald Mclndoe, 59, British plastic surgeon who gave hundreds of burned, maimed R.A.F. and Allied pilots new faces, limbs and lives; in his sleep; in London. In appreciation of his wartime skills, some 600 of Mclndoe's "reconverted" pilots formed an alumni group called "The Guinea Pig Club." Its anthem: "We are Mclndoe's army,/We are his guinea pigs:/With dermatomes and pedicles/Glass eyes, false teeth and wigs...