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...High Blood Pressure. In the vast majority of cases, the cause of high blood pressure is unknown. The one thing certain is that the pressure can be influenced by the carotid nerves and the carotid nerve sinuses on each side of the neck. Two research teams have begun work almost simultaneously on electrical control of these "barorecep-tors" with "baropacers" to be implanted like heart pacemakers. At the A.M.A. convention in San Francisco, Dr. Aydin Bilgutay of the University of Minnesota showed a baropacer which picks up pulses of current from two electrodes implanted in the heart and uses those...
...planes to evacuate them to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, 120 miles away. In his ramshackle, tin-roofed headquarters, guarded night and day by a patrolling platoon of tanks, Kong Le worked round the clock drawing up a battle plan, although weakened by a liver ailment and a serious sinus condition...
...that bring him in continuing fees, known in the trade as "residuals," he makes about $300,000 a year. He can imitate anything from the cry of a loon to the whining drawl of a mountaineer, run effortlessly through all the categories of voice quality-rasp, strain, fog, nasal, sinus. He can shift ground from tight-lipped British to loose-lipped Brooklynese to American rural, and run analytically through the ages of man, making his voice grow older as he progresses from the breathiness of childhood to the cracking articulations of the elderly...
Shortly after the Indians invaded Goa three months ago, Jacqueline Kennedy postponed a scheduled trip to India; the illness of Father-in-Law Joseph P. Kennedy was her ostensible reason. Last week, Jackie's sinuses were acting up. Her condition, reported Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, made it necessary to postpone her scheduled departure for India until this week-and to reduce her visit from 22 days to 14. There was no lack of speculation in Washington and New Delhi that Jackie's sinus condition was a sensitive diplomatic barometer, affected by John Kennedy's pique...
...research after graduating from Louisiana State University, later was project engineer for an experimental program for the X-1 (the first airplane to break the sound barrier) and directed the research program for the more advanced X-15. He took charge of the shoot last week despite a severe sinus infection, analyzed reports from 20 experts on every phase of the preparations through the long, tense hours before the firing. Last week his vital decision to leave Glenn's retrorockets attached to the space capsule until it re-entered the atmosphere left Williams still shaken three hours later...