Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that felled President Eisenhower two months later. But Ike is the living proof that a man can serve as President for years after a heart attack. In spite of his crushing work load, Johnson is in good health; his heart is completely healed, and he carries a plastic-enclosed cardiogram in his pocket to prove...
...eggs, fertilized in a finger bowl with five drops of sand-dollar sperm, were put into the individual compartments of a plastic ice-cube tray (300 eggs to a "cube"), and kept in sea water. As they grew, Dr. Karnofsky added various concentrations of drugs known to be useful in treating cancer and noted the kind and degree of their effects. Against this base line, he could test hitherto untried substances and estimate their probable usefulness against cancer. The method will not replace the testing of drugs in animals, Dr. Karnofsky told the American Association for Cancer Research, but will...
...Despite the rise in exports, many U.S. industries complain that foreign nations are moving far too slowly to ease trade barriers. Last week the French government took a step to ease restrictions, lifted import quotas on more than 100 products, including chemicals, phonographs, dictating machines and plywood, rubber and plastic equipment. By 1961 France hopes to end all quotas. But U.S. businessmen face some new restrictions, not only in France but in other nations...
...research achievement that has nothing to do with the safety or effectiveness of false teeth, but may save their wearers embarrassment, was joyously reported to William Wrigley Jr. Co. stockholders: a new plastic to which chewing gum will not stick is almost ready for the denture trade...
...smoking is dangerous and often painful for heart-attack victims was explained by researchers from Wayne State University (see EDUCATION). Patients volunteered to let them work two thin plastic tubes into their hearts and put a hollow needle into an arm artery. After three cigarettes, blood pressure and oxygen readings showed that the heart had to work much harder than usual but got little or no extra oxygen. Among the test's financial backers: the Tobacco Industry Research Committee...