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...course important. The absence of marked persistent electrocariograph changes, irregularities in the heart's rhythm, and pain from temporary closing or spasn of the coronaries, are all reassuring. They indicate that branches of the other coronary have established collateral cirulation to the area once served by the plugged vessel, and that the area of dead heard tissue is not large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The President and Dr. White | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

Michely constructed a simple device: a strong-walled pressure vessel with a valve and a nozzle at one end. When used as a rocket booster, it is filled with 66 Ibs. of water heated electrically to 504° F. The water cannot boil because it is confined, but its pressure rises to 50 atmospheres (735 Ibs. per sq. in.). When the valve is opened, part of the water turns into steam, and a jet of steam and water spurts out at 1,140 m.p.h. The reaction, Michely claims, can push an airplane forward just as efficiently as a fuel-burning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot-Water Rocket | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...which he jousts with a person known as "the grim and grisly Griswold of the North." The episode begins as Danny totters up to the stirrup cup. There is a beaker of wine for each of the contestants, and he cannot remember which one has been doctored. Does the vessel with the pestle have the pellet with the poison? No, no. The chalice with the palace has the-or was it the brew that is true? But then that means the pellet with the pestle's in the vessel with the brew, with the poison with the palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...months Elsie waited inside Germany, not knowing whether she would be able to get out. "Those were awful days," she recalls, "The Gestapo was always asking me why I wanted to go." In July of 1939, they finally allowed her to board a German vessel bound for New York. She arrived in the United States with four dollars and two children...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Hamburg Special | 11/29/1955 | See Source »

...Sent to the Senate a bill authorizing a $30 million atomic-powered ship. The vessel would take longer to build than the one requested by President Eisenhower (who contemplated the use of a Nantihistype reactor) and would carry passengers as well as freight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Symptom on the Cheek | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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