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Everywhere he went, the visitor smelled ether, a sure sign of outdated anesthesia techniques. Disposable products such as linens and syringes were unknown, though they are in wide use in the U.S. "Diagnostic work is primitive," said Hall. "Xray equipment is antiquated. Blood-chemistry analysis is inefficient." The leisurely, informal pace was astounding. At a 500-bed hospital, ten to 15 operations a day are normal in Russia-compared with 35 to 50 in the U.S. At Moscow's Neurosurgical Institute, the entire staff turned out to hear Dr. Hall lecture on the air-powered drills and bone saws...
...Space. Project TicToc headquarters is housed 800 floors below the Arizona desert and is developing capability to thrust explorers into any time period, past or present. The first human test pilot is propelled back five decades, finds himself in the Atlantic on the Titanic. The captain naturally thinks his visitor is some kind of nut and locks...
Charles de Gaulle arrived in Cambodia last week, touching off a paroxysm of pageantry and adulation that might have humbled a lesser man. As his plane landed, royal guards in gold-threaded tunics and pantaloons stood at the ready with rolls of ceremonial straw matting, in case the exalted visitor decided to sit down on the tarmac...
...some spit and polish for the image Verwoerd would like to project to the world as a man reasonable to his black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough, but except to be photographed, Verwoerd refused to appear in public with Chief Jonathan. So the visitor had his chat, adjourned to lunch in a private room in a hotel-and flew home the same day to avoid the embarrassment of no room in Pretoria's whites-only hotels for the night...
...place one goes to if one is too rich to bother with the Taj Mahal. Last week, amid the wandering beer barons and compliant courtesans, a newcomer dashed in and out in a bright succession of tight slacks and V-necked blouses, occasionally pausing to effulge a visitor with her smile, occasionally cutting out of the creepy joint in her baby-blue Ferrari...