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...Seat. In Ahoskie, N.C., after city officials bought a dozen pairs of yellow plastic rain pants for the fire department, Chief J. D. Linkous noticed that inside each pair was a tag reading: "Do not use near heat...
...training program is largely the work of Eliot who states his main objectives as: "strength building, endurance conditioning, and development of body control in the air." He also has taken lung capacity tests of all his skiers and is dickering with large concerns to obtain some plastic "snow" which will be placed on the JV football field for cross-country practice...
...physicians, most of whom are men, micromastia (abnormal smallness of the breasts) is neither a very serious nor a very common complaint, but a great many U.S. women seem agitated about it, some to the point of severe neurosis. In San Francisco last week, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery was divided over the desirability of a drastic remedy: surgery to pad out the breasts, using either body fat or a spongelike synthetic...
...point the flesh sculptors were unanimous: what plastic surgery needs is a spongelike substance that will stay soft indefinitely. A majority held that the current concern over micromastia is really a mass micromania-a "culturally induced" delusion of smallness...
...doctors say they have never seen a case of nearsightedness which became less severe after the wearing of eyeglasses, so that the lenses could be made weaker. But after the small, plastic contact lenses that cover only the eye's cornea became available in 1939, some doctors began to see such cases. So far no ophthalmologist (M.D.) has published these findings, though several report them privately. Last week, at a National Contact Lens Congress in Manhattan, an optometrist from Harrisburg, Pa., Dr. Robert J. Morrison, reported on 1,100 myopes, aged seven to 19, whom he had fitted with...