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...entered the pulmonary vein carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart's upper left chamber. Car ried along with the blood, the slug went through the mitral valve into the left ventricle and up through the aortic valve. It turned downward at the aorta's arch in the upper chest, and traveled through the femoral artery until this became too nar row. Then the bullet stopped behind the left knee. Surgeons had no difficulty removing it. Military surgeons who treated hundreds of wartime wounded said that the case of Bruce's unguided missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: . . . It Comes Out Here | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

None were disappointed, it was a real debate. Indeed, the only common denominator between arch-conservative William F. Buckley and arch-liberal Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., during a debate on "Freedom and the Welfare State." Monday night was their articulateness...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Schlesinger, Buckley Dispute Fate Of Freedom in Welfare Society | 2/1/1961 | See Source »

...Grandfather Calder and his son Alexander Stirling decorated a good deal of Philadelphia. "The public use of sculpture is its highest field and goal," said Stirling Calder, and he turned out everything from a battle-dressed Leif Ericson, which the U.S. gave to Iceland, to George Washington on the arch in Manhattan's Washington Square. But the warm talent of the man is best seen in a statue of a chubby little boy that he called Man Cub. The stark-naked cub: the future mobilist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptors' Dynasty | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

Luxury for All. Sir Simon inherited 70 penny bazaars from his father in 1907, expanded by convincing Britons that his green-and-gold-fronted stores were about the most efficient in the country and had the best bargains. His Marble Arch branch in London makes more money per square foot than any other store in the world, says Sir Simon, even though goods are limited to women's clothes, men's shirts, socks and sweaters, and food specialties. His merchandising credo is to give everyone "a little bit of luxury, to make a factory girl look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: The Paper Purge | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...John's at Collegeville, Minn., Marcel Breuer has flung skyward a 112-ft.-high bell banner utilizing reinforced concrete and parabolic curves to erect a vertical cantilever, a form that Architect Breuer thinks as expressive of the mid-20th century as the Byzantine dome and Gothic arch and spire were of their times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The New Churches | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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