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...women leaning back in large loungechairs are enclosed from the chest down by a plastic balloon. To the casual observer, they look like a cross between customers at a beauty parlor and weight watchers at a reducing salon...
Near the arch of the aorta (see diagram) he inserted a plastic catheter tube, which was connected to a heart-lung machine. Another catheter, similarly connected, went into the right auricle. At this point, the whole body was perfused with oxygenated blood. The surgeons then clamped the aorta beyond the catheter and clamped the pulmonary artery and venae cavae, thus isolating the heart from the rest of the body, which thereafter received no circulation...
...succeeded. Skin grafts, often attempted after burns, slough off after a few weeks unless they are taken from another part of the patient's own body. The first consistently successful human homografts (between two individuals of the same species), beginning in 1905, involved the cornea-the transparent, plastic covering of the eyeball which has no blood circulation...
Uncle T's warmth comes through clearly on the air. A contrast to the plastic friendliness of the top-forty stations ("ugly radio," T calls them), the genuine article is refreshing...
...Madison, Wis., Inventor Bruce B. Mohs, 35, has built over two years at a cost of some $15,000 in parts alone a prototype of a plastic-covered, steel-bodied car called the Ostentatienne Opera Sedan. It boasts a 270° windshield visibility, hidden rails in the sides to protect its four passengers (who enter through a single swing-up rear door), cantilevered roof beams that act as skid rails in case of a rollover, and seats that swing in a collision, placing body weight against the seat instead of a narrow seat belt. Mohs, who claims that the sedan...