Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it scared me") who, at 27, and just 3½ years after their marriage, became Private James Dougal McRacken, a soldier in the U.S. Army's tough Normandy-landing goth Division. On the night of Aug. 5, 1944, McRacken and eleven other G.I.s crouched behind a tank as the 90th approached Mayenne on its drive toward Paris. Retreating German troops had blown up two of three bridges across the Mayenne River to stop the Americans; the Germans planned to dig in for an all-out fight for the town. Only the 150-ft.-long Savings Bank Bridge remained...
Deep down in the "tank"-the maximum security room of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-some of the weary officers had not been to bed for 40 hours. Once again last week the Pentagon was under presidential orders to reassess the nation's military might, a job that most Americans might take for granted is continually in progress. But this time the order from the White House carried a chilling call for immediate action: Find out in a couple of weeks how the armed forces can be beefed up to face the Berlin crisis that is expected...
Remote-Control Surgery. If it is to live germfree, an animal must be born germfree. This is relatively easy with birds such as chickens. The fertilized egg is germfree on the inside, and its shell can easily be sterilized in a germicidal bath. The "tank" in which the birds are to live can be heated to serve as an in cubator; when the chicks hatch, they can feed and fend for themselves at once. The Japanese quail is even better than the chicken because the birds begin to lay when about seven weeks old (as against seven months for chickens...
...difficulties are far greater with mammals. To get a germfree line started, researchers have to deliver germfree young by Caesarean section. Just before the pregnant animal would normally deliver, it is anesthetized, strapped to a miniature operating table, and its abdomen shaved and sterilized. Two sterilized tanks are prepared and connected by a sterile tunnel. The animal is slipped into the operating tank. A surgeon puts his hands in the rubber gauntlets that are sealed into portholes in the tank's sides. A set of sterile instruments is already in place. He delivers the young, drops them into...
Sterile air passes constantly through the rearing tank. A milk formula is slipped in through a sterile lock. Already inside are sterile eye droppers with rubber nipples. Every hour, 24 hours a day, the young animals must be fed by hand, always by the tedious process of working through a rubber gauntlet. Monkeys, with the longest "nursing" time, are the costliest animals to raise. Pigs are better: born with their eyes open, they are not a feeding problem, and when only six weeks old they are the right size for experimental surgery which may later be adapted to man. Small...