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...eyeball, remove the cataract-clouded lens, and try to make up for the loss of the lens by spectacles. But they have not dared to insert a substitute in the eyeball. Now a British eye surgeon reports a way to do just that: a carefully ground lens made of plastic is slipped into the eyeball during the operation and stays there...
Through a non-wettable plastic tube, which avoids damage to delicate formed elements, heretofore caused by collecting with glass or rubber tubing, the blood flows into a column of resinous beads (called an ion exchange column). Here calcium is removed to prevent clotting. On this resin are collected platelets, tiny disk-like formed elements of the blood which initiate the clotting process, obtained in this machinery for the first time in substantial yield...
...Bumper's Bumper. Chicago's Hush Bumpers, Inc. is ready to put on sale pneumatic plastic auto-bumper guards which can be attached next to standard bumper guards or used to replace them entirely. The Shmoo-shaped hush bumpers come in a variety of car colors. In tests, they absorbed the shock of a car collision at 12 m.p.h. Price...
...which stress color, form, and shading, Josef Albers has done bright and glossy studies in sandblasted glass. To make his patterns, Albers put together sheets of laminated glass of different colors and blasted his designs from the top plates, allowing the underplates to show through. Albers also worked with plastic, and the engraving called "The Tight Rope" shows his particular talent at its best...
Guatemalan doctors liked Salvatore Lanza at first. A slender, high-strung Italian in his middle 30s, he was loaded with Old World charm. From his voluble talk, it appeared that he was a devoted scientist and surgeon, educated at European universities. About his specialty, plastic surgery, he seemed to know all there was to know. Since plastic surgery is a virgin field in Guatemala, several doctors gratefully accepted his services as a consultant...