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...duct of Silastic (trade name for medical silicones made by Michigan's Dow Corning Corp.) is 18 in. to 24 in. long, only 1/16-in. thick. It is led under the skin, behind the ear and down the neck to a point where it is spliced into the internal jugular vein. The excess brain fluid is thus dripped into the bloodstream, where the body readily disposes of it. Another Silastic preparation, which looks like a sheet of waxed paper, serves to correct a different type of brain problem: when part of the brain's parchmentlike covering, the dura mater...
Rebel Airlift. Last week into Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, winged planeload after planeload of arms and ammunition bound for the Congo from Ghana, Algeria and Egypt. Secrecy hung thick as a cloud of Sudanese flies around the British-built Comets and Russian turboprop AN-12s as they transshipped their cargoes to smaller aircraft. Although the Sudanese government cynically claimed that the tarpaulin-covered crates carried nothing more dangerous than "medical supplies," they must have been the world's heaviest bandages...
...reject Mariner figures, only their interpretation. To take the temperature of a planet's invisible surface by radio is, he thinks, a far-fetched maneuver. All sorts of things besides hot rocks and dust can generate radio waves. They may come, for instance, from storms in the thick Venusian atmosphere, which is churned by twice as much solar energy as hits the Earth. Experts on cloud physics are finding that even gently turbulent clouds give off radio waves...
...ranching is more of a pleasure than a source of income. Explains an associate: "He gets a real kick out of manipulating cattle from one pasture to another." He also enjoys food in quantity. When he speaks of a "couple of hamburgers" for lunch, it turns out to be thick chunks of roast round steak, rolls, iced tea, jalapenos, peas, fried potatoes, fruit cake, and cottage cheese salad...
...Thick & Narrow. Dr. Robert E. Cooke, pediatrician in chief at Johns Hopkins' exciting new Children's Medical and Surgical Center (TIME, May 22) based his warning on findings that originated in Britain, after the National Health Service offered free vitamins galore and several cases of vitamin D poisoning were recorded. Similar results were observed in Germany. And now, says Dr. Cooke, he is convinced that excessive vitamin D was responsible for the mental retardation and other abnormalities of 13 babies seen in 18 months in his hospital. This indicates that there are several hundred cases a year...