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...Michael Drummond seemed to be adjusting smoothly to his new artificial heart. Within days after a Jarvik-7 pump was implanted in his chest late in August, the 25-year-old Phoenix assistant grocery manager was eating solid food, walking with help and doing leg and arm exercises. Drummond's steady progress seemed to augur well for the next phase of his treatment: a second operation, to remove the mechanical device, which had been implanted only as a stopgap measure, and to replace it with a human donor heart...
DIED. Roscoe Drummond, 81, journalist and author who for half a century chronicled power and politics in Washington; in a nursing home in Princeton, N.J. Starting out in 1924 as a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, the witty, diminutive (under 5 ft.) Drummond rose to executive editor and during the 1940s ran the paper's Washington bureau. There he covered eleven U.S. Presidents, largely in his thrice-weekly "State of the Nation" column, which was syndicated in 150 newspapers after he joined the New York Herald Tribune...
...loved Mr. T, but I hate the makeup," says Gary Coleman, 15, who spent more than two hours dressing up as his oversized hero for the season premiere of the NBC series Diff'rent Strokes. The A-Team spends a week filming in the Drummond apartment, and little Arnold has an identity crisis when he learns that his new girlfriend is only using him to meet Mr. T. Arnold's effort to win back her attentions by imitating television's baddest dresser will never get him into the pages of Gentlemen's Quarterly, but it does...
...staff, but many are still disillusioned and angered by the events of the past months. "You cannot go into an organization, fire one-third of the workforce, drive up to the guardrail of bank ruptcy, and pretend that nothing has happened," news correspondent William Drummond said recently. Drummond, who last month left NPR to teach journalism at the University of California, urged other employees to follow suit and find jobs elsewhere...
...Drummond recommended that people should leave while they can. He himself is departing NPR today to teach radio journalism at the University of California