Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time or another, the Post Office Department has seen fit to immortalize five Chief Justices of the Supreme Court: John Jay, John Marshall, Harlan F. Stone, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes. Now the P.O. has decided to honor some Associate Justices who were every bit as great as their chiefs. First on the list: Oliver Wendell Holmes, who died in 1935 at the age of 93. Come March, his wise and bearded visage will look out from a new 15? stamp...
Square Pegs Who Fit...
Helen Krouch weighed a scant 100 Ibs., and her heart was proportionately small. Louis Block weighed 170. Besides the difficulty of tailoring the transplant to fit, Surgeon Kantrowitz saw another problem: the donor heart almost certainly could not pump enough blood at first, although it might later increase its capacity. He decided to transplant the heart but to assist it for a while with a helium balloon pump inserted through a thigh artery and placed in Block's aorta. This device (TIME, Aug. 25) has worked well for five patients in shock and near death after heart attacks...
...place two quadrantal areas of Kasperak's heart, with venae cavae and pulmonary veins attached-analogous to the distributor cap of a six-cylinder car with its spark plug leads. Then he cut this section away from Mrs. White's heart and tailored the remainder to fit...
...William Wordsworth in a famous sonnet, and Russell Baker echoes the poet three times a week in the New York Times. A funny place to do it, in a paper full of world news. But to Humorist Baker, 42, even a fraction of all the news that's fit to print is far too much. "The law of life," he writes, "is that there is almost always less happening than meets...