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...about one-fortieth the normal kidney function, or roughly half what is needed to maintain life, he could let the poisons pile up in his blood for a few days. Surgeon David Dillard opened an artery and a vein in Ben's left arm and implanted a plastic tube in each. He brought the ends of the tubes out over the forearm, hooked them together to form a bypass that let the blood flow through freely, to prevent clotting. When the small skin wounds healed, physicians connected the tubes to the artificial kidney. This filtered the poisons...
...Isosceles Triangles. Gone is the familiar desk to stash books and apple cores; each pupil every morning picks a plastic "tote tray" from a central rack. The kids hustle about all day in a bewildering variety of changes. Even the furniture arrangement is unpredictable. "They might be seated in rows, circles, squares or even isosceles triangles," says one teacher. "Or that day they might just want to clump around my desk...
...shares at 2 in February, now is selling at 12½-even though it was in the red last year. Sealed Air Corp., which offered 100,000 shares at 1 last October, is now selling at 7¾ on expectation of the success of its machine to weld plastic. A stock whose name suggests either electronics or technical mystery seems sure to have a jump in price. Among recent new issues, Nytronics has gone from 5 to 13¾, Renwell Electronics from 4 to 19, Bristol Dynamics from 7 to 19; Radiatronics, Pneumodynamics and Bell Electronic have all more than...
...developed by Technical Animations, Inc. of Long Island, whose sales have risen in five years from $7,000 to $600,000 this year. The company went into the black this year, but is spending its small profits in research. The development-called Technamation-is a method of applying transparent plastics to still pictures so that they appear to move when ordinary light, projected through a revolving disc of polarized plastic, is thrown on them. Motion can be controlled so accurately that a Technamated cutaway drawing of a jet engine shows the fuel flowing in and burning, the turbines and gears...
Early in April, a series of plastic bomb explosions upset Paris. To many, the terrorist activities brought panic, but to some they only confirmed certain hypotheses about things in general. Shrugging off the results of an April 4 explosion near the Paris Bourse, M. Papon, Prefect of Police, declared precisely and firmly for the record: "Nothing astonishes me in this century...