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...roughly 2,500 years, the franchised readers of the human palm have been gypsies. Last week, not from a tearoom but from the cardiac clinic of New Orleans' Charity Hospital, came a new palm reading technique-one that may help doctors to learn more about congenital heart defects...
...Abilities' profits (federal taxmen have ruled it a nonprofit organization) go into the Human Resources Foundation. The foundation has found, for example, that cardiac patients can do much more work than anticipated and actually improve in health in the process. In addition to publishing such findings, Viscardi writes books about the experiences of people at Abilities guaranteed to bring a lump to the throat (next one to be published in June: A Laughter in the Lonely Night). He has helped Minneapolis-Honeywell, Hughes Aircraft, Republic Steel, Sperry and Grumman Aircraft to use the skills of the handicapped; Sears, Roebuck...
Before Gunsmoke came along to stun the child mind, there must have been a bad moment in the youth of every American now in the cardiac bracket when he realized that Buffalo Bill was a bit of a fraud. He simply could not have done all the heroic things that he claimed to have done. Today's child will probably be surprised to learn that Buffalo Bill was not a phony-or just a legend like Paul Bunyan -but a real man, and an intelligent and able one at that...
...means that he must often buy a stock, whatever its price and prospects, when the majority of investors want to sell, thus keep it from dropping too much. He must also sell stocks when the majority wants to buy, thus keep stocks from rising too fast. In the great "Cardiac Break" on Sept. 26, 1955, after President Eisenhower's attack, Coleman and the other 350 New York Exchange specialists laid out about $100 million in one day for stocks that panicky investors dumped on the market. The specialists had no assurance prices would not keep falling until their fortunes...
...rallies that he can profit by. He can buy a stock one minute and sell it for a half-point profit the next. He often is "long" (buying a stock for a rise) in one stock while "short" (selling for a fall) in another. Coleman actually profited in the Cardiac Break, just as he did in the market's crash in 1929. "We were both long and short. To survive...