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...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research announced the development of a tiny capsule FM transmitter that can make just such broadcasts. It is small enough (|⅛in. long, 4/10 in. in diameter) to be swallowed like an oversized pill. Conceived by New York Physician John T. Farrar, the plastic-encased transmitter was designed by RCA's doughty old (67) Electronics Pioneer Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (who perfected the electron microscope) to record changes in activity in the digestive tract...
Winter Swimming. Inventor Walter Bird of Buffalo demonstrated a plastic cover for winterizing outdoor swimming pools. The pool cover is supported by raising inside air pressure slightly with an electric blower. Bird says that sunshine makes the water comfortably warm in fall and spring, but recommends a water heater in northern climates in midwinter. Estimated cost of cover, which is stored away in summer, is less than $1.50 per square foot of area enclosed...
Died. Dr. William Milton Adams Sr., 51, internationally known plastic surgeon, onetime (1953-54) president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; of a heart ailment; in Memphis...
Sacred Duty. Husky, blue-eyed Reporter Dubois, who wears unbreakable plastic spectacles as a precaution against manhandling, keeps his ears cocked for news leads by carrying a pocket radio wherever he goes. In nearly 30 years (ten for the Trib) on the banana-belt beat, he has developed an uncanny facility for guessing when and where a story will break. In Guatemala, where he reported as early as 1948 that the Arevalo regime was Communist-infiltrated, he arrived on the scene only hours before Castillo Armas' successful uprising broke out in 1954. New York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish...
...upper jaw so that most of the face is detached from its moorings, then fixing the bones in a new alignment. And some patients are heroic: a woman whose entire lower jaw was removed for cancer in 1939, so that her tongue hung down her neck, has had 27 plastic operations. She has a new lower jaw with a denture, and eats normally. Though now presentable-looking, she would like to give the plastic surgeon a chance to achieve perfection in his art. So, says Gillies: "When I am on my last ride in my little box, she will...