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...1970s, the availability of beta blockers, a class of drugs that help reduce the burden on the heart, made it possible for certain patients to postpone or avoid surgery altogether. Patients may also benefit from the introduction in the U.S. two years ago of substances called calcium channel blockers, which can reduce blood pressure, relieve some types of angina and help the heart work more efficiently...
...most of its atomic facilities to international inspection. It has always insisted that it would use atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Even so, its new-found nuclear prowess inevitably will give Argentina added clout in its disputes with Britain over the Falkland Islands and with Chile over the Beagle Channel at the tip of South America. U.S. intelligence sources estimate that Argentina, should it choose to do so, would be able to produce a nuclear weapon in one to five years...
...Pope Pius XII, was called the Pope's Guardian Angel; of a brain hemorrhage; in Vienna. Mother Pasqualina met Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli in 1918 when he was papal nuncio in Munich, moved with him to the Vatican and, after he was elected Pope in 1939, became the channel through which outsiders had to pass to gain access to the ascetic, withdrawn Pontiff...
This is made evident by the special television programming planned for this anniversary. In Boston, Channel 7 will devote eight hours to a program entitled, "Since JFK: The Last Twenty Years." During one of its four segments, entertainment critic Rex Reed and others will for some reason review the arts over the past 20 years. During another, former congresswoman Bella Abzug and NAACP leader Benjamin Hooks will participate in a "talk about social issues." And in the final segment, Betty Friedan, Jimmy Breslin and Michael Debakey will "explore feminism and the sexual revolution." Channel 7 sees the Kennedy assassination...
...examine feminism after the Equal Rights Amendment fails? Why not social and racial issues near the first Martin Luther King Day? And why "family issues" now? Channel 7 suggests that the Kennedy legacy somehow represents a definite philosophy on all these themes. It would seem that Kennedy's tacit fondness for culture in the White House (Pablo Casals played there, remember) justifies a complete review of "the arts, entertainment and the media." Or perhaps Channel 7 just recognizes that the Kennedys make good television--they're young, glamorous, attractive, and rich. It seems safe to assume that brothers playing touch...