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...Defense Department in Washington said a plane tracking the 3127-ton Anzoategul, which was seized by Communist gunmen on the high seas Wednesday, reported the vessel came to a sudden halt about...
...long, and weighing about 1,000 lbs. Inside will be an airtight capsule large enough to hold one man lying face down. A crewman bailing out will crawl into the capsule and detach the lifeboat from the spaceship. As soon as it is clear, nitrogen gas from a pressure vessel will inflate a pair of winglike spars made of heat-resistant woven-wire cloth. As the wings expand, the cylinder will split, forming a heat shield that will protect the leading edges of the wings. The inflated lifeboat will be an air-and space-worthy paraglider (see diagram...
...coronaries. They may simply be narrowed, so that less blood gets through. They may be almost closed by a fatty plaque, so that a clot forms there and clogs an artery. About 85% of strokes are caused by arterial shutdowns; about 10% by hemorrhage (bleeding through a burst blood vessel in the brain, usually in victims of high blood pressure), and 5% by traveling clots in the bloodstream...
...vision. The doctor presses against the eyeball with the ophthalmodynamometer until the patient reports that he cannot see out of that eye. The instrument registers the pressure at which vision was cut off. This in turn indicates the pressure in the internal carotid artery and shows whether that vessel is dangerously narrowed. If it is, a DeBakey operation may prove to be the answer...
...nothing more than a predictable tapestry of hairbreadth hurry and Navy derring-do, suitable for eventual framing in Hollywood. But like many another literary ship before her, the San Pablo offers a readymade image of a larger society. Both as a licensed literary microcosm and a U.S. naval vessel, she soon turns out to be far from regulation...