Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developed an ingenious solution: into the aortic channel he introduces an additional valve made of plastic, with a floating ball which stops the backflow when the heart relaxes. (Such valves used to tick like a clock inside the patient, are now silent because the ball is covered with silicone rubber.) The gadget does not prevent all backflow but stops enough to keep most patients' hearts from being overloaded...
...companies in the field. North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division currently has 10,250 employees and contracts to power a fleet of big missiles, from the intercontinental Atlas to the Army's 200-mile Redstone. A second newcomer. California's Aerojet, owned by General Tire & Rubber Co., with 1956 sales of $140 million and a $300 million to $400 million backlog, is doing equally well; it proudly boasts that it makes the engine or engine parts for "practically every missile for all three services...
Standing only 55½ in. high, a good 3½ in. lower than ordinary Cadillacs, the Brougham will ride on the auto industry's first complete air-spring suspension system. Instead of steel springs, the Brougham floats over the bumps on air-filled rubber cushions. Under the hood it packs a 325 h.p.-engine, and under its brushed stainless-steel roof it has enough costly gadgets to keep the most finicky millionaire happy. Opening, closing and locking the trunk is done automatically by electronic controls. Seats, steering, windows and brakes are power-operated; air conditioning is standard equipment...
...slobbing starts as Marine Mitchum, smeared with sweat and beard, rolls over the side of a rubber life raft, staggers through the surf to a palm-fringed island and proceeds, with the hearty cooperation of the sound track, to slurp up several gallons of the nearest fresh-water lagoon. The next thing he sees is a nun, and for all the surprise he shows, the audience might think that nuns just sort of naturally came with tropical islands. But Deborah is dramatically startled to see him. "Naow, le's jus' take it easy, ma'am," says Mitchum...
...Never put whisky into hot water bottle crossing borders of dry states or countries. Rubber will spoil taste. Never make love with pants on. Never sleep in moonlight. Known by scientists to induce madness . . . Never wear red necktie. Provide light snorts for ladies if entertaining. Effects of harder stuff on frail sex sometimes disastrous. Bathe in cold water every morning. Painful but exhilarating . . . Eat fresh fish for breakfast. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand...