Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sticking close to the original Wangensteen cooling method of pumping alcohol, at a temperature near zero Fahrenheit, into a stomach balloon, Dr. Hitchcock and his team treated 173 patients, 172 of whom have now been followed for 18 months (one was killed in an auto accident). They report that 50 have minimal ulcer pain remaining, and 13 have none-a satisfactory result rate of only 37%. No fewer than 71 of the patients still suffer pain, 37 more eventually had to have part of their stomachs removed, and one died from a gastric-ulcer perforation...
...OTTO PIENE, 37, was a teen-age flak gunner in Germany during World War II. He vividly recalls the incredible light patterns of tracers and the bursts of bombs. Says he: "Fright inspires inventiveness and gives birth to giant monsters." In 1950 he helped found the Group Zero in Düsseldorf, which investigated the effects of light. On his own, he designed "light ballets" like sweeping projections of tracer beams. "I want to demonstrate that light is a source of life which has to be continuously rediscovered, to show its expansion as a phenomenal event." His Fixed Star...
...explosive charge to blow fuel tanks clear of a crashed plane; resilient, supertough nylon fuel tanks that would not burst on impact; a jelly-consistency fuel that would smolder instead of explode; and fail-safe instrument systems that would permit entrusting difficult landings to the automatic pilot. In zero-zero visibility, jet pilots crack, their only problem after landing may then be to find their way to the terminal...
...frostlike pattern of valleys and ridges that should delight both cartographers and geologists. One shot shows Borman concentrating on the use of an inflight vision tester; another shows Lovell peering out of his capsule, admiring the incomparable view from orbit. A closeup picture of Borman illustrates the effects of zero G in space: hovering near his head is a camera-film magazine floating weightlessly during orbit...
Died. Dr. William Randolph Lovelace II, 57, pioneering space doctor and NASA's director of medicine; of exposure after the crash of his twin-engine Beechcraft in sub-zero weather near Aspen in the Colorado Rockies which also cost the lives of his wife and the pilot. A onetime Mayo Clinic surgeon, Lovelace turned to aerospace as wartime head of Army Air Forces medical research at Wright Field; he developed the first satisfactory oxygen mask for high-altitude flight, and played a role in virtually every major high-altitude development since, thus becoming NASA's inevitable choice...