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...dying heart was an I ugly yellowish color when Dr. William DeVries finally cut it loose, tore it out of the Mercurochrome-stained chest cavity, and put it to one side. For the next three hours, while a nearby heart-lung bypass machine kept the unconscious patient alive???and while a tape in the background eerily played Mendelssohn and Vivaldi?DeVries' sure hands carefully stitched into place a grapefruit-size gadget made of aluminum and polyurethane. At 12:50 p.m. last Monday, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart newly sewn inside William J. Schroeder began beating steadily, 70 beats...
...Space Odyssey, the companionable computer HAL turns rogue in outer space and methodically begins assassinating its masters. In a B-movie called Demon Seed, the world's most advanced computer actually impregnates a scientist's wife, played by Julie Christie; it is so smart that it yearns to be alive???and scarily succeeds. Some manufacturers of computer games have discovered that people are disconcerted when the computer responds instantly after the human has made his move. So the computers have been programmed to wait a little while before making countermoves, as if scratching their heads in contemplation...
...Lieut. Colonel Carl B. Grumpier, his Phantom jet struck by enemy fire, had to parachute into North Viet Nam. It was almost two years later, in May 1970, that statuesque Mrs. Jane Grumpier, 39, received the first six-line letter from a prison camp. The knowledge that he was alive???there have now been seven letters?helped. "Now I can tell the kids 'When Daddy comes home . . .' rather than 'If Daddy comes home,' " she says...
What happens next in the larger Arab-Israeli deadlock is the top priority question now preoccupying Washington. Despite all of the new tensions?or perhaps because of them?the Rogers peace initiative is still alive???barely. While it seemed to founder on the failure of the U.S. to prevent Soviet duplicity in Egypt, it is now a matter of even more urgency. The plan has at least led to a cease-fire along the Suez. Both sides have agreed at least in principle to renewed talks...
...real sense the last, best hope of earth. They are heard in the words Lincoln wrote in a year of approaching victory: "Thanks to all. For the great Republic?for the principle it lives by and keeps alive???for man's vast future?thanks...