Word: resins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working with electronic engineers, the Buffalo doctors devised a transistorized pacemaker, driven by a tiny, long-life mercury battery, cast in epoxy resin and encased in a double coating of silicone rubber. The instrument uses the timing effect of electrical surges in a closed circuit to measure off 60 beats a minute. To carry the impulses to the heart, Dr. Chardack uses two springs of platinum-iridium alloy, attached to the heart muscle...
...Hubert Humphrey; the impact of the glamorous and numerous Kennedy family on a startled nation; the surge of Stevenson's forces and the taut control in the Kennedy camp at the Los Angeles convention. Then it is the Republicans' turn, and Dick Nixon steps onto the resin. There is the anguish of the Vice President, halted at the very beginning of his campaign, in the midst of his triumphant tour of the South, by a staphylococcus infection, and there is the bathos of his speech in Centralia, Ill., recalling the story of how his father decided...
Many a new product spawns other new products as it jolts older competitors into fresh efforts to improve their lines. When the textile industry threatened to turn to the new synthetic fibers, the cottonmakers developed resin treatments to make cotton wash-and-wear. Polypropylene, one of the newest and cheapest of the petroleum plastics, is now putting the pressure on more expensive cellophane. Produced as a fiber, it promises to make the best no-ironing blend of cloth. Laverne's "invisible" chairs are made of the plastic, make any room look bigger, less cluttered. Esso is experimenting with colored...