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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Imaginative and inventive surgeons have tried several ways to help the victim of a heart attack regain normal circulation, but none had ever been so bold as to cut out a piece of the heart itself. None, that is, until Dr. Raymond O. Heimbecker was confronted at To ronto General Hospital with a 56-year-old diabetic victim of a heart attack...
Clearly, despite hundreds of earlier tests on dogs, such daring surgical deeds are for use in only the direst cases, but Dr. Heimbecker expects to see more of them and to repeat his bold procedure...
...fast-growing U.S. catalogue of Janáacek's works is this four-movement suite for piano with six instruments, which enter by ones and twos to sass the piano and one another. Not top-drawer Janácek, but nonetheless vigorous and jazzy with its insistent themes, bold fistfuls of chords and thumping rhythms. Josef Pálenicek is the pianist...
...illiteracy, candidates beamed if they had drawn such favorable ones as an elephant or a cow, moaned if they had been assigned a picture of a bottle, which could offend Moslem teetotalers, or a disembodied human leg, which has connotations of cannibalism. In a few districts, no one was bold enough to present himself as a candidate; in almost all, dire threats were made against those who voted. For months, the south has been torn by a Mau Mau-like revolt among its 4,000,000 black tribesmen, who fear political domination by the 9,000,000 people...
...lies not in how many items can be used by the trip taker but in how few. The dedicated drug user may have some use for the paraphernalia. But many shoppers who intend trying nothing stronger than a Bloody Mary find that the clashing, primary-colored psychedelic fabrics, the bold, wobbly colors of posters advertising Light Shows and the glittering kaleidoscopes and prism glasses offer them a vicarious if tantalizing hint of what the authentic acidhead sees when he is away on a trip...