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Using an isolated dog's heart, connected to the donor dog's circulatory system, Bromberger and Caldini found that magnesium ions, released from the rest of the body during hypothermia, seemed to concentrate in the cold heart. They were then able to show that this magnesium could trigger fibrillation; a small magne sium increase caused fibrillation even at normal temperature...
...Minister Jacques Soustelle, who is bitterly hated by the rebels as the chief political mentor of the Algerian colons, barely escaped assassination when an Algerian thrust a revolver through the rear window of his Citroën as it stopped for a red light in the heart of Paris. Trigger-happy police began shooting down dark-skinned Italians and Portuguese in the belief that they were Algerian...
...more than 20 years, Barney Baker, 47, has palled with and worked for nearly all the U.S. hoodlums of any consequence. Among them: Meyer Lansky, Joe Adonis and Trigger Mike Copola in Miami; Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas; John Vitale in St. Louis. Said Counsel Kennedy: "Everywhere you go there has been violence...
...curious discovery is that more energy may be released when a sphere is collapsed under water than when it is blown outward against pressure. To measure this, Navy scientists once sent a 6-in.-diameter hollow ball 3,500 ft. to the bottom. Collapsed by a spring trigger when it hit, it exploded with as much force as a "sizable" charge...
Ground controllers at the Space Technology Laboratory of Thompson Ramo Woolridge Corp. in Inglewood, Calif, will study the flight closely. At the proper instant, an Air Force tracking station in Honolulu will trigger the probe's own rocket, guiding it so that the moon sweeps it in. Then the probe can make a lazy, 50-hour pass around the moon, performing such chores as sending an electric-eye view of the moon's unseen face. Theoretically, the moon could sling the vehicle back to earth in a figure-eight-shaped voyage (TIME, June...