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...realistic impression of the place. Visitors find the same old dingy streets and grimy restaurants, and while there are youths going about with girlish hair styles and outlandish clothes, you can hardly expect us to be proud of such weirdies. Girls, except for women street-cleaners, do not wear plastic suits. Carnaby Street is not a new phenomenon; it has catered to the chorus-boy type for years. New York is the real swinging city...
...pump in question was the plastic "half-heart" attached to the chest wall of Marcel L. DeRudder, 65, in Houston's Methodist Hospital (TIME, April 29). For more than 41 days, with never a falter after the first hour, it had done three-quarters of the work normally done by the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber. What suddenly killed DeRudder last week was a rupture of the left lung. A plastic tube slipped through a small cut in his windpipe had been delivering oxygen under pressure to his lungs. What actually caused the rupture...
...next used, which may be within a couple of weeks, DeBakey's mechanical-minded research assistant, Surgeon William Aker, will have made some minor modifications. In DeRudder's case, the two main inflow and outflow tubes, stitched into his left auricle and aorta, were led to a plastic frame, 1½ in. thick, implanted in the chest wall. The hemispherical pump was attached externally to this. The connecting tips of the frame for the pump will be modified to make the surgery simpler and therefore quicker...
Battling back against market inroads by aluminum, plastics and concrete, steelmen are also pushing thinner but stronger wire cable, lighter structural girders, even tinless cans coated with resins. Having upped its research staff from 274 to 700 persons, Bethlehem Steel in the last year has brought out a corrosion-resistant sheet steel cheaper than some alloys, devised a plastic coating to protect suspension-bridge cables from the weather. U.S. Steel has just introduced a spiral nail which not only fastens lumber more securely but provides up to 29% more nails per pound than the smooth-shank variety. And Crucible Steel...
Hybrid came out as a sculpture 52.2 inches high; 23.6% brass, 17% plastic, 28.6% aluminum and 30% Plexiglas; colored red, white and blue, of which 28.5% must be expressed in light...