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...hundreds of mastectomies. After the anesthesiologist gave the go-ahead at 8:05 a.m., Fouty cut into the breast and within about ten minutes had removed the lump. It proved to be 2 cm. in circumference-no bigger than the tip of a man's little finger. A technician rushed the lump to the pathology department, where it was fast-frozen with liquid nitrogen. A thin slice was cut, which a pathologist examined under a microscope. Within five minutes the message was relayed to Fouty: malignant cells. In a 2½-hour procedure, Fouty removed the entire right breast...
...Charles D. Cox, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, this seemed paradoxical because spirochetes infecting humans or animals flourish in oxygen-rich blood and cells. With Technician Miriam K. Barber he began experimenting with a virulent strain of syphilis bacteria grown in rabbits. Using a recently developed, extremely sensitive technique for measuring oxygen concentrations, the two investigators found that the spirochetes, far from being anaerobic, consume oxygen in their metabolism. In the journal Infection and Immunity they suggest the "strong possibility" that oxygen is necessary for the reproduction and growth of the organisms. As to why they...
...while St. Clair had told the court that the reel of tape was "removed full" at 4:20 p.m. After checking, St. Clair reported to Sirica that five minutes and twelve seconds of the 45-minute conversation had not been recorded because a Secret Service technician was changing tape reels...
TIME has learned, however, that the technician, James Baker, now stationed in Texas, would not have needed more than a minute to change reels of tape. Moreover, it was learned that the missing portion was apparently clipped from the end of one tape and the beginning of another...
William A. Steiger, 36. Often mistaken for a page during his freshman term on Capitol Hill, this energetic Republican has matured into a masterly legislative technician. A fourth-term Congressman from Oshkosh, Wis., he was elected to the statehouse after his 1960 graduation from the University of Wisconsin and at 28 won a seat in the U.S. House. A leading advocate of the volunteer army, Steiger sponsored the Occupational Safety and Health...