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...better it would be, they reasoned, to reduce the patient's blood volume (and hence, blood pressure) at the beginning, so that there would be little or no loss from uncontrollable bleeding at the site of operation. They opened an artery in the wrist and let the heart pump the blood out through a rubber tube into a collecting flask (containing heparin, to prevent clotting). By an ingenious arrangement of valves and flasks, the doctors could draw more blood at will, leave the supply stationary, or pump it back. With the systolic blood pressure down to about...
...Knox hook and ladder rig, the noble warrior of the department, was bought from a Boston fire station and rushed to the Harvard division to become the workhorse of the University force. The Knox, featuring solid rubber tires and a built-in water pump, was by far the finest engine Harvard had ever owned...
Alsdorf picked up his dishwasher from California's Applied Products Co. on a royalty deal (a minimum of $20,000 a year plus $2 for each machine sold in excess of 10,000). The machine, which has an adaptation of a powerful hydraulic pump previously used for cleaning airplane parts, needs no installation; just plug it into a socket and hook it onto the kitchen faucet...
...m.p.h.). The air "ramming" in at the open front is slowed down and compressed in the ring-shaped space between the outer shell and the pointed inner section. Some of the compressed air is diverted by a scoop and used to run a turbine and drive the fuel pump. The rest is mixed with fuel and fired by a small flame that burns in the shelter of the conical igniter. The hot gases roar out through a nozzle lined with heat-resistant ceramic. Their reactions propel the machine through space...
Died. Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, 60, waggish Chicago hotelman (the two Ambassadors, the Sherman) and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn); of a heart ailment; in Chicago. Hotelman Byfield once defined the perfect hotelman as the "master of opposites. He needs to be a greeter and a bouncer, pious but ribald . . . noted as a connoisseur and competent as a plumber...