Word: stapler
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...which staples must be loaded one by one with tweezers, U.S. Surgical Corp.'s more advanced instruments use throwaway, presterilized cartridges. The carefully engineered instruments are lighter and remarkably versatile. They can fire as many as four different sizes of sutures in as many different patterns. The stapler itself looks like a stainless steel monkey wrench with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze of the surgeon's hand. It can save upwards...
This fall, however, the Harvard Drama Review has made its escape from the domination of the stapler into a slick-paper format, written and assembled at greater leisure. Joel Silverstein, the editor, has put together the most intelligent collection of critics any of these magazines has ever had, and the reviews, though still erratic, have been far better on the average...
Paris gallery owners estimate that there are about 100 serious U.S. painters now working in Paris, but few of them have attracted as much attention as 35-year-old Joe Downing, who comes from Horse Cave, Ky. (pop. 1,545). With scraps of specially treated paper and a stapler to fasten them together, Downing produces "paintings" that have brought French critics under his spell...
...each of the nine pages of text, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss, Presidential Adviser C. D. Jackson and the rest of the presidential party snatched up pages, assembled them in numbered order. At the end of the line stood Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, armed with a hand stapler, who efficiently fastened the copies of the speech together. By the time the Columbine landed in New York, Ike's high-level assembly line had 200 advance copies of the speech ready-enough to satisfy the immediate appetite of the press and radio...
...Stapler. In Porterville, Calif., William Benedict, out hunting, lined up a couple of deer, bagged them both with one shot...