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...atria) intact. Then he will sew Dacron fittings to the aorta, pulmonary artery and atria. The artificial heart, actually two ventricles, is then snapped into place "like Tupperware," says DeVries. A plastic tube leads from each ventricle through openings made in the patient's abdomen to a breadbox-size console that controls the rate and pressure of air pulsed to the heart. The console in turn is connected to an air compressor. As air flows into each ventricle, it pushes a thin membrane upward, expelling blood that has entered through the atria out through the pulmonary artery...
...volume encyclopedia should be bigger than a breadbox and smaller than the British Museum. By these criteria, The Random House Encyclopedia (2,856 pages; $69.95) triumphs. At almost twelve pounds, it may be too cumbersome for bedtime perusing, but at least a forklift is not required to hoist it to the pillow. And the R.H.E. is consistently light in tone. Its editors and the 800-plus others who worked on the book have assembled more than 3 million words, but they have also inserted nearly 12,000 color illustrations to brighten the load...
...Meany's unions could well revise their work rules. His Plumbers and Pipefitters require two pipefitters and a welder to hook up the piping on a steam trap about the size of a breadbox. If American farmers worked the same way, there would be 20 men on a combine and wheat would be $10 a bushel...
James Earl Ray had fled the Missouri State Penitentiary in April 1967, hiding in a big wooden breadbox to get from the prison bakery to the outside world. He had twice before tried to escape, once placing a dummy in his bed and hiding in a ventilator shaft; once he broke a makeshift ladder trying to scale the wall...
...bogey that dominates the stage is an 11-ft. form sculpted out of assorted junk, an effigy caricaturing the godhead of white power as it might be conceived by the black African mind. The huge breadbox mouth flaps open to emit the platitudes of white domination, the solace of the white man's religion, the equity of the white man's law. The cast play the colonizers of Angola and the colonized interchangeably, singing Brechtian ditties that sardonically mock the oppressors and vivify the laments of the oppressed...