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When it comes to correcting the more diffuse type of coronary disease, most cardiac surgeons base their work on a technique first used in 1950 by Montreal's pioneering Dr. Arthur M. Vine-berg. The left internal mammary artery, which is not very important in man, is implanted in the heart wall so that its blood flow may reinforce the coronaries. One internal mammary is big enough to carry an adequate blood supply for the entire left ventricle (the heart's main pumping chamber), and if the blood still does not reach all the starved areas, the right...
...passing through a hole in his chest. For a man with an artificial heart to get up from his bed and walk, let alone work, the power supply must be inside him. It may be electrical, depending on the long-lived, high-performance mercury batteries now being perfected for cardiac pacemakers (TIME, Jan. 11, 1960). Another possibility would be to install an electric coil inside the body and have it operated through induction by a power pack worn outside the heart. Either system would supply adequate electrical stimuli but only a smidgen of mechanical power...
Eleven days in the intensive-care unit at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital nearly did the old movie hero in. "They kept bringing in all those cardiac cases," growled John Wayne, 57. "I was ready to shoot my way out." Hastily, they moved him to another floor to finish recovering from surgery for the removal of a lung abscess. Finally, 10 lbs. (and several shades of tan) lighter, the Duke strode from the sickbed into a brigade of reporters. Had it been cancer? A heart attack? "There's nothing to that," he roared, ripping open his shirt...
...prolonged mechanical adolescence," says Peter Sellers, 38, who loves nothing better than a spin in his 83rd car, a $19,600 Ferrari, which makes a nice change of pace from his 82nd, a $14,000 Lincoln Continental. But 100 m.p.h. can be hard on the heart, and an April cardiac seizure made Peter feel like a very old man, so the wheel has come full cycle, and it's back to puberty down an English country lane for the convalescent comedian and his bride Britt Eklund...
...probably not sufficient to relate Mr. Gunn's heroes to the convention of the "broken Coriolanus," or more contemporaneously and thus more deceptively, that of the cardiac Sisyphus. The quality of "starriness" central to the title poem and one other, entitled "Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt," is that "disinterested, hard energy" by which Nobody holds Nothing-at-all at bay. Mr. Auden's "ironic points of light" flashed out among a decimated signal corps on the last battlefield of love; Mr. Gunn's stars are self-sufficient. Where Donne tossed and scrambeld known quantities and academically-sanctioned categories, where Shakespeare talked...