Monday, October 16, 1961 Session Konson Page 5
Space Research Aids Medicine
LOS ANGELES — (UPI)—A new age of down-on-earth medicine is coming into being with the miniaturization and telemetry developed for space exploration.
"Iinvisible" hearing aids and tiny devices to duplicate the work of missing vocal chords already are in being. Much of the medically useful research in progress is still under secrecy wraps. But what can be told is impressive.
The cumbersome electronic devices of an entire medical clinic may soon be reduced to the carrying size of the doctor's bag, experts told a recent meeting of California industrialists here.
A Beckman Instruments Co. gadget called an "Ultra-Micro Analytical System" is now able to make a complete blood analysis from a drop just big enough to fill the eve of a needle.
At least 50 of the nation's leading industrial firms, they were told, are engaged in research with medical promise.
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has adapted from a light-weight satellite transmitter a "heart listener" the size of a package of cigarettes which can broadcast directly or through a telephone to an electrocardiograph in the doctor's office.
"Someday we won't have to wonder how we are," said a Lockehead official. "We can call up our doctor and say, 'Doctor, how am I?', and the doctor will take a look at the information we are broadcasting to him and say, 'I don't like the way your heart looks. Better chase yourself down to the hospital and go to bed.'"
Remote electronic aids for checking body temperature, pulse rates, blood pressure and other vital functions—similar to the medical hook-ups which relay the condition of astronauts to earth-bound physicians—are already in civilian medical use. A 17-bed installation at New York's Roosevelt Hospital permits one or a few nurses to keep an eye on critically ill patients. The device is credited with saving the life of one the first day it went into operation by relaying immediate word that the accident victim had gone into shock.
A watchdog committee of the Civil Rights Council is planning a spot check of the Lawrence Roller Rink, two miles east of Lawrence.
Non-miniature computers are also taking their place among medical tools. A system similar to the Sage system of the Strategic Air Command is being developed by System Development Corp. of Santa Monica as a medical diagnostic device—to spot the abnormal in information about a patient and help the doctor pinpoint what's wrong.
CRC Plans Check On Roller Rink
The committee, under the direction of Ruth Lewis, Kansas City, Mo. senior, is going to test the rink to see if violations of the Kansas Accommodations Act are taking place.
The act states that anyone operating a business which provides transportation, public entertainment or has a restaurant license must serve people regardless of race, color or creed.
County Attorney Wesley M. Norwood said recently that the Lawrence Roller Rink "probably comes under the act."
Enrollment Increase In Art Department
He said that violations of the act constitute a misdemeanor and are subject to fines up to $1,000.
Raymond Eastwood, professor of drawing and painting, said there has been a 40 per cent increase of art majors this year.
"We've probably doubled the number of art majors in the last ten years." Prof. Eastwood said.
A number of students are majoring in art education and many are taking art just for enjoyment, he said. Either way, the enrollment is large, he added.
The public doesn't require any new ideas. The public is best served by the good, old-fashioned ideas it already has. — Henrik Ibsen
NEW FACE,SAME SPORTING HEART
We might as well tell you straight off: Corvair's the car for the driving enthusiast. Think that lets you out? Maybe. Maybe not.
And Corvair's found new ways to please you this year. A forced-air heater and defroster are standard equipment on all coupes, sedans and both Monza and 700 Station Wagons. So are dual sunshades and front-door armrests and some other goodies. You'll note some new styling, inside and out. Nice. And safety-belt installation is easier, too, and cheaper. Another extra-cost option well worth considering is the heavy-duty front and rear suspension; it turns a Corvair into a real tiger.
So you can see we haven't really done much to Corvair this year. Why on earth should we? If this car, just as she is, can't make a driving enthusiast out of you, better take a cab.
Until you've driven one, you really can't say for sure, because Corvair's kind of driving is like no other in the land. The amazing air-cooled rear engine sees to that. You swing around curves flat as you please, in complete control. You whip through the sticky spots other cars should keep out of in the first place. (Especially this year, now that you can get Positraction as an extra-cost option.) You stop smoothly, levelly with Corvair's beautifully balanced, bigger brakes.
A New World of Worth
And here's America's only thoroughbred sports car, the '62 CORVETTE. We warn you: If you drive a Corvette after your first sampling of a Corvair, you may well end up a two-car man. And who could blame you?
See the '62 Corvair and Corvette at your local authorized Chevrolet dealer's