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...trouble began March 13 when H. E. Northway, Del's father and manager of the Houston plant of M. W. Kellogg Co., was opening a shipment of intensely radioactive pellets of iridium 192, which Kellogg's nuclear division uses to take X-ray pictures of heavy metal objects. Helped by Jackson McVey and two other men, and working with remote-control apparatus from behind a thick shield, Northway opened the 800-lb. shipping container, took out the sealed metal canister full of deadly pellets and put it on a remotely controlled lathe. When the lathe's tool...
Brain & Heart. The hospital's first surgeon in chief was the late great Harvey Gushing, who immediately began to develop the improvements in technique which made brain surgery a lifesaving, everyday procedure. Working side by side with Gushing was a radiologist. Dr. Merrill Sosman, who pioneered X-ray treatment for pituitary tumors. In 1920 Surgeon Elliott Cutler made a daring attempt at surgery inside the heart, to correct a narrowed mitral valve; it was crude and premature (all but one patient died), but it helped pave the way for one of his pupils, Dwight Emary Harken...
From coast to coast the speed of the new giant's growth is staggering. In Pinellas Park, Florida last week, General Electric just opened a multimillion-dollar X-ray plant. At St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Orlando, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator, Sperry-Rand and Glenn L. Martin Co. are planning three more plants and laboratories to produce guided-missile control systems and do advanced research in electronics. New England's electronics expansion has changed the name of Route 128 near Boston to "electronics highway" Massachusetts alone has some 500 electronics plants. And in Los Angeles, where a new electronics plant...
...intestine). A fluoroscope can keep track of the pill's position in the body, while a receiver picks up the FM signals, presents them to the examiner on an oscilloscope as graph waves. Prospects are good that the transmitter will replace awkward, uncomfortable tubes now used to supplement X-ray examination. The pill broadcaster may help spy out certain hard-to-diagnose ailments, e.g., colitis (inflammation of the large intestine...
...that as it may, Elvis Presley's records were reported to be the nonsocialist-realist craze in Leningrad and elsewhere. Disks, bootlegged from U.S. records and cut on discarded hospital X-ray plates, sell for 50 rubles...