Word: sac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Castle Air Force Base a World War II bomber veteran expresses the spirit of change as he tells of his new B-52, SAC's "Long Rifle." Says he: "Brother, this is the plane to end them all. It takes four railroad tank cars of fuel, flies at altitudes in excess of nine miles. It's as light as a feather to control, and yet it has a rudder four stories high, and it weighs 390,000 Ibs. at takeoff. I've got the power of 30 diesel locomotives out there on the wings...
...report this week's hair-raising ' cover story on missiles, Los Angeles Correspondent Edwin Rees projected himself along a 15,000-mile course. It zigzagged up and down the U.S. from San Diego to Washington, from New Mexican firing ranges to Seattle plane plants, from SAC air bases to the tropical Bahamas over which missiles are flown. "I baby-sat for a Pentagon colonel to earn a few minutes of his time, and traveled 3,000 miles for a 20-minute interview with one general," he recalls...
...TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), that a substance called sex chromatin can be detected in female but not in male cells. Dr. David Serr and Geneticists Leo Sachs and Mathilde Danon of Jerusalem's Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital reasoned that cells in the amniotic fluid, the liquid inside the sac that encloses the fetus, could be analyzed to reveal the child's sex. To get small samples of the fluid, they inserted an extremely fine hypodermic needle through the vagina and into the sac...
...foresee whether the best answers will in the end come through chemicals or the scalpel, or both-or how much longer the tough, miraculous and mysterious sac of muscle will elude man's determination to control it. But one of the most hopeful items in medicine's advancing knowledge is that heart disease and heart attacks need cause far less of the chill dread that used to surround them (see box). "Perhaps the most dangerous thing we doctors can do in managing patients with heart or artery disease," says Page, "is to discourage them with too many...
...candidate for the operation after he had described its technique before the annual assembly of the District of Columbia Medical Society in Washington. The operation, known in medical circles simply as "Beck 1," is one which he pioneered 19 years ago. In it, the surgeon slits open the sac surrounding the heart, and rubs both the inside of the sac and the heart itself with a rough-headed instrument, causing acute inflammation. Finely powdered asbestos is then sprinkled on the heart covering, and the resulting abrasive action between the heart and its sac adds to the inflammation and causes...