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...team of German researchers now appears to have found one. Physicist Hans Stephan and Drs. Hans Stoboy and Adalbert Schaede have developed a device called a Cardiomed that monitors the working heart and tells when it is not beating at the proper rate. Not much larger than a billfold, the battery-operated gadget checks on the heart through electrodes stuck on the chest. It emits a single beep whenever the heart rate falls below a predetermined lower limit, a double beep whenever it rises above a preset ceiling. Doctors who have experimented with the device (retail price: $280) find...
Harvard came back feeling like the tourist who has had his billfold, watch, and cufflinks removed by skillful fingers, only to be mugged on the way to the airport...
...Guarantees. Reasoner's appeal to devotees is his ability to cloak the pit falls of life in smiles. His rueful comment on losing a billfold, with all its credit cards and documents of identity: "Life is laid out there on the desk, the circumspection of a respectable existence, and I'd hate to spend another day with nothing but an honest face to prove my right to a place in the Great Society." Sometimes accused of being too light, Reasoner said in an interview last week: "I think light is just as much a part of news...
...hospital. Minutes later he was dead, apparently of a heart attack. Found on Farouk's body were a gold wedding ring, a cigarette lighter, a watch, a pill box initialed 'F,' a pair of dark glasses, a loaded Beretta automatic, identity pa pers, and a billfold containing $115 in Italian lire and $2,500 in U.S. bills...
...though he had heard that they were seven to two against it. When one management man began, "I'm just an old country boy . . ." Lyndon broke in. "Hold it, stop right there," said the President. "When I hear that around this town, I put my hand on my billfold. Don't start that with me." Everybody roared, and the country boy declared: "By God, all I was going to say was that I'm ready to sign up." Said Johnson afterward: "That broke the deadlock. Of course, I'll never know what he was going...