Word: utah
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...contributed to his own profession by developing new techniques for making dummies move and for animating films. Even more remarkable, he has also contributed to medical science. He has designed and patented a mechanical heart and is now participating in the artificial-heart research program at the University of Utah's medical school...
After patenting his plastic heart pump in 1963, Winchell offered it to the American Medical Association and American Heart Association. Neither was interested at the time because Winchell had not produced a working model. But the University of Utah's Dr. Willem Kolff was. Kolff, who had already invented the first artificial kidney that patients could use, looked over Winchell's design and found it similar to one he had been working on. He invited the entertainer to work and experiment at the medical center (where Winchell also assisted in transplants...
Winchell has been so impressed by Kolff's work that he has turned his patent over to the University of Utah, where Kolff has already kept calves alive for as long as 14 days with artificial hearts of his own design. Winchell's work may help improve upon that record...
Brian Vorse of St. Lawrence University raced to third, less than a tenth of a second behind runner-up Tom McGhie of Utah. David Dodge of the University of Vermont placed fourth. Steele defeated both Eastern skiers by over a second in the EISA slalom at Middlebury two weeks...
...Schlafly's tactics seem to be working. Of the states that have voted on ERA in 1973, Minnesota, Oregon, Wyoming and South Dakota have ratified it, but North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah have defeated it outright, and at least five others have struck it down by more subtle means-Montana, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Virginia. Kansas and Nebraska, both of which passed it last year, are reconsidering their decisions. In short, the momentum of the amendment has been stopped, and it now seems dubious whether the 38 ratifications can be won this year. If the issue drags on into...