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...Royal Palace, which now houses the Sovereignty Council. As protocol demanded. Rountree signed the official visitor's book, but then both Americans made the error of lingering for a half-hour of coffee drinking and talk with junior officials. It was enough time for the mob leaders to shunt their hoodlums across town by truck. As Rountree and Fritzlan left the palace, their car was nearly overwhelmed...
...Isotopes serve as tireless sentinels to warn of hidden leaks in pipes, as sensitive controls to separate oil from gasoline in pipelines. Oilmen merely insert a shot of an isotope after each batch is pumped in; when the radioactive cocktail reaches interchange points, the isotope automatically activates valves that shunt the crude and the gasoline in proper directions...
...Since the combustion gases start their work cycle at extremely high pressure and temperature, the thermal efficiency of the engine (the amount of mechanical energy that it gets out of the fuel) can be very good. It has no flywheel, crankshaft or connecting rods. It has many valves to shunt air through the various chambers, but they are all self-operating, and none are exposed to high temperature. The engine can be made to run on almost any combustible liquid, even thick black bunker oil. Since the gases that spin the turbine have been mixed with scavenging air, they...
...Blue babies. The Blalock-Taussig operation, with later modifications, is relatively safe but does not correct the underlying defects; it merely seeks to counteract them by adding an abnormal blood shunt. Young enthusiasts believe that an effort should be made to correct the abnormalities (open the pulmonary valve, close the interventricular defect and thus correct the overriding of the aorta). But deaths during and soon after operations of this type, with the heart-lung machine...
Another coronary operation, as practiced by Washington's Hufnagel, involves cutting and tying off both mammary arteries-the chest wall can get along without their blood supply-and thus shunt their contents over into the coronaries. Hufnagel hit on this theory by chance when, during different cardiac operations, mammary arteries were cut accidentally, and patients made better recoveries. Hufnagel has been doing this type of operation for years, is still patiently compiling data on his patients' progress before making claims of its effectiveness. Virtually the same operation, though done in execution of a different theory, attracted wide...