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Winton B. Rankin, an FDA spokesman, told a special Senate subcommittee that the agency had found no evidence that such impurities are to blame; for safety's sake the FDA is continuing its investigation. There is no doubt, however, that some wearers of contact lenses suffer eye damage from other causes. Explained Rankin: "It appears that the principal difficulty arises from improper fitting, insanitary practices by the wearer, or wearing the lenses too long at a time." On that, optometrists and ophthalmologists, who have differed sharply over the fitting of contacts, were for once in agreement...
...being able to miniaturize the most delicate equipment. But last week it was a Russian achievement that stirred their admiration. Soviet scientists have turned out a highly sophisticated and dexterous artificial arm that weighs less than 3 lbs., and is driven by the minuscule electrical impulses of the wearer's own nerves...
Make a Fist. When the patient contracts a muscle in his arm, just as if he intended to make a fist, the servo-electric system relays the signals and his artificial hand clenches in a fist. The lightweight arm is so versatile that the wearer can unscrew a light bulb, lift weights up to 9 lbs., and bend every knuckle on every finger...
...world. The curved curple is In, and the monobuttock is on its way to a new divisive splendor. First evidence was the recent popularity of stretch pants and tight slacks, which were obviously wasted if what they stretched or were tight over was not the real personality of the wearer. The final nudge is the new fashions. "Last year's girdle won't properly fill out this year's dress," says Executive Vice President Walter A. Schieman of Peter Pan Foundations Inc. And Formfit is feeling its way toward a new kind of falsiefication which it calls...
While women of all ages traipse along happily with the trend, the male population has yet to embrace the shift in public. Provocative it may be, hinting at perfections scarcely imagined unless the wearer were rendered shiftless. But as fashion gives way to fat, milady often assumes shapes and sizes that require all-too-little imagination. There is an answer for that, too: the tent shift, a sloping expanse of hopsacking, stretch fabric, burlap or denim that keeps her bulkiest problems right under the Big Top where they belong...