Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conventional hospital heart machines weigh as much as 1,000 lbs., but the new portable pump, developed by Baylor's Dr. Arthur C. Beall Jr., fits into a suitcase, weighs little more than 50 lbs., and can operate on batteries. In bed, little Phan Thi Truong pointed happily to her chest, saying again and again "Numbah One"-thanks both to the surgeon's skill and to an ingenious mechanical Numbah...
...Esperanza del Valle Vasquez, 37, was helped to survive ten crucial postoperative days by being hooked up to one of Dr. Michael DeBakey's plastic "half-hearts," developed at Baylor and Rice universities. Used mostly outside rather than partly inside the body-as in previous cases-the pump increased Mrs. Vasquez's heart output by as much as 40% while she recuperated from deft surgical replacement of valves damaged by rheumatic fever. Two previous patients of Dr. DeBakey's, both men in their 60s, died despite aid from the heart pump; but at week...
Sattahip's harbor is being deepened to make it a major ammunition and petroleum port from which a pipeline will pump fuel to Korat airbase in northeast Thailand. The increased logistical flow will supply not only the dozen U.S. fighter-bomber squadrons now operating in Thailand, but also four additional squadrons due to arrive soon, raising the number of U.S. servicemen in Thailand to 30,000 by year's end. As the main funnel for the flow, the Sattahip sea-air complex will require thousands of U.S. personnel...
...legislation that will go into effect for all '68 models. Chrysler has already improved its carburetor and spark adjustment. Ford will install its "Imco" (for improved combustion), and American Motors now has approval for its new engine designed to cut fume emission. General Motors has developed an air-pump system driven by the fan belt...
Congressman Wright Patman's House Banking Committee approved a bill that, among other things, allows the Federal Reserve flexibility to 1) set varying rate ceilings on different classes and amounts of time deposits; 2) raise bank reserve requirements against time deposits; and 3) pump money into the mortgage market by purchasing the obligations of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Home Loan Banks. The Senate did as well: a subcommittee headed by Alabama's John Sparkman voted to give the FNMA, familiarly known as Fannie Mae, $2 billion in new borrowing authority...