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Harvard had only five minutes before the game to warm up because the bus never arrived to take the players from the motel to the field. Private cars were obtained at the last moment. "We were rubber legs for the first quarter," Coach Bruce Munro said, "but we started playing better as the game went...
...Diego Rockets instead of going to Mexico. The tallest man on the starting five was 6-ft. 8-in. Spencer Hay wood, a 19-year-old sophomore from the University of Detroit. The other starters included a 24-year-old Army captain and a 28-year-old rubber-company foreman. And with only three weeks to prepare for the Olympics, the makeshift U.S. squad hardly seemed a match for taller Russian and Yugoslavian teams that had been playing together ever since the 1964 Olympics...
...catheter is a thin tube of Silastic (silicone rubber). To reach the brain's remote fastnesses, a plastic sleeve is inserted in the carotid artery in the neck and the catheter is threaded through it. Earlier catheters were often stopped by friction and could not always be guided into the desired path at a junction or around sharp curves. The new model, developed in research at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, has a magnetic tip. This can be made to oscillate in different directions under the control of an external...
Near the magnetic tip are two small slits in the rubber tube. With a syringe attached at the neck opening, the doctor can inject a dye opaque to X rays at the precise spot where an arterial abnormality is suspected and see the vessels clearly outlined on the screen of a fluoroscope. It may be possible, said Dr. Hilal, to use the catheter to inject substances to seal off weak spots in ballooned-out arteries, or to inject anti-cancer drugs into brain tumors...
...deceptively easy to roll," Tom said, fingering the rubber nose clips that hung around his neck. He watched Jennifer in the pool. "But the first time is always hard...