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...Gorton will have one big factor going for him in hardy, hero-loving Australia. Flying with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, he was shot down in the Pacific in 1942, lived for days on turtle eggs and fish until his rescue, then went through painful plastic surgery for injuries he had received when his face "got mixed up with the instrument panel." As he sailed home at last on leave, his boat was torpedoed, and he spent another day and a night on a raft, chest-deep in water, before his second rescue. Today...
Folks go first class in Texas, and first of all is that bubble-topped monument to indoor baseball and plastic grass, the Houston Astrodome. "We're geared for anything," boasts the arena's major astrodomo, Judge Roy Hofheinz, 55. Not quite, though. The Astrodome lacks a basketball floor, and this might have been an embarrassment when unbeaten, second-ranked Houston University wanted to use the Dome for its game against unbeaten, top-ranked U.C.L.A. No sweat for the judge. He reached clear over to Los Angeles to borrow a portable floor, spent $10,000 trucking it to Texas...
While Haupt lingered through the night, pathologists and hematologists compared his blood type and cells with Blaiberg's. By a 12-to-l chance, both had type B, Rh-positive. Droplets of serum containing Haupt's white cells were pipetted onto dime-size disks in a plastic tray, each disk containing a cell-reagent preparation. The intensity of the reactions on different disks was noted, and compared with those already obtained from Blaiberg's cells. The cells, concluded Pathologist Martinus C. Botha, were a fairly good match. Not identical-that is impossible-but similar enough to suggest...
...speaks of my Government and my army and my taxes. The Presidential Seal has been emblazoned on his twill ranch jackets, his cowboy boots, his cuff links, even on plastic drinking cups...
...Plastic tunnels. To guard against moon viruses and bacteria, NASA will not allow the astronauts to open the Apollo hatch until a plastic tunnel has been extended to the spacecraft from a 35-ft., hermetically sealed van placed near by on the carrier deck. Carrying 50 Ibs. of lunar rock and soil samples in steel vacuum cases, they will walk through the tunnel into the van. There, in the company of a doctor and an engineer, they will be completely isolated from the outside world. When the carrier reaches a U.S. port, the van will be flown intact...