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Once home, Charlie finds his wife itchy and bitchy, his little boy unteachable and unreachable. Miserably, he wanders into a mythically peaceful and green meadow near by. There, a huge red-and-yellow ascension balloon sits waiting, like the swan boat in Lohengrin. He clambers aboard and cuts the ropes, borne free to oblivion...
...Model Cities Convention--held in balloon-festooned St. Mary's Auditorium--voted to have a 24-member City Demonstration Agency in charge. Residents of the model neighborhood will elect 16 of their number to serve on the agency...
...Besides the difficulty of tailoring the transplant to fit, Surgeon Kantrowitz saw another problem: the donor heart almost certainly could not pump enough blood at first, although it might later increase its capacity. He decided to transplant the heart but to assist it for a while with a helium balloon pump inserted through a thigh artery and placed in Block's aorta. This device (TIME, Aug. 25) has worked well for five patients in shock and near death after heart attacks...
...women leaning back in large loungechairs are enclosed from the chest down by a plastic balloon. To the casual observer, they look like a cross between customers at a beauty parlor and weight watchers at a reducing salon...
After the instrument has been inserted, a balloon attached to the inserted end is inflated, pushing blood away from the heart walls. An 8 mm. camera films the heart and its motion, and enlarges the image 21 times...