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Roused from his sleep by shortness of breath and a feeling of pressure on his chest one night six years ago, Sidney Schwartz of Manhattan sensed that it was a heart attack. Even as he called his doctor he began to worry about how his illness would restrict his activities. That anxiety proved baseless. At 63, Schwartz today is doing everything he did before his coronary-and then some. Says he: "I feel great...
...final entry last week in Saigon Correspondent David DeVoss's notebook. A metal fragment pierced the pages, and a few words are illegible because of blood streaks. Moments after he wrote his impressions, DeVoss was hit by North Vietnamese mortar fire. He was seriously wounded in his chest, arms and legs. He received immediate first aid on the scene, and was quickly flown by helicopter to the Third Field Hospital outside Tan Son Nhut Airbase, where he underwent emergency surgery. At week's end his condition was declared satisfactory...
...this oppressively average day, hot for early April, the gentleman at the desk is heavy, sweaty, and uneasy in his neat suit with the shiny blue tie spelling his man's name in silver letters down his chest--all too predictable. He gives me literature, but has little...
Fagan made the winning score for Yale on a fluke goal at 7:03. The attackman was feeding a pass from behind the Crimson net when Harvard goalie Rob Abbot stepped out to try to intercept the ball. Fagan's pass hit Abbot on the chest and bounced into the goal. A few minutes later, Dan Lynch scored for Yale to ensure a Bulldog victory...
...device is a relatively recent innovation. Most pacemakers, implanted in the chest muscles under the collarbone, send out electric impulses that actually set the heartbeat rate. But G.E.'s $850 standby, or demand, unit is designed to assist hearts that need only intermittent stimulation. It works only when the patient's heart rate slows below normal. After G.E. received word of a malfunction in one unit, it conducted tests which showed that some of the devices were pacing too rapidly. An unwanted increase in the heart rate reduces the time during which blood remains in the cardiac chambers...