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...material was being freeze-dried (by a half-dozen methods), an attendant made fresh entries on a wall board in Dr. Hyatt's office, to expand the bank's current inventory to: 33 cortical strips, eight infant long bones, four straight pieces of chest artery, 39,354 sq. cm. of skin. The tissue bank will not take material from victims of infectious disease or cancer, has to rely mainly on victims of heart attacks and accidents. In five years it has taken material from 104 individuals, benefited about 1,000 patients of 150 military and civilian surgeons across...
...Shield, the big change in super-marketing is not in functional display, but in new lines. To a conventional grocery in Keansburg, N.J.. Shield is now building a 20,000-sq-ft. addition that will sell only nonfood items. With one shopping cart the housewife can move from hardware to florist, from drugs to dry goods. In addition to women's and children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round...
Among the visitors who flew in to Katmandu for King Mahendra's coronation last week (see above) were three sturdy men wearing swords, embroidered knee-length felt boots and striped wrap-around coats. They were from tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) Bhutan, a state perched in the Himalayas between India. Sikkim and Tibet. Although King Mahendra's close neighbors, they had traveled eight days-on foot and by pony to India, and then by plane to Nepal...
...main complaint is space. For $10,000 the Washington panel thought buyers should get at least 1.200 sq. ft. of space, with three bedrooms. 1½ baths, a kitchen with eating facilities, a living room, utility room and basement. Such a house, say architects, actually costs $15,000. Yet. according to statistics for 1955 compiled by the Labor Department, these things are often not found in houses selling for $15,000. Of all new homes in the $12,000-$15,000 price range. 63.9% had fewer than 1,200 sq. ft. of floor space, while 36.7% of those...
...Louisiana's rich Lake Washington field. But as the drill bit downward-to 5,000 feet, 10,000 feet, 15,000 feet-their hopes sank as fast as their costs rose. Drillers had to battle hole temperatures up to 350°, pressures up to 20,000 lbs. per sq. in. Bills for a special heavy drilling mud skyrocketed. It took eleven hours to pull the pipe out and replace a drill bit. Last November, when costs reached $8,000 daily, the partners considered abandoning the well...