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...Euler, 78, groundbreaking Swedish physiologist who in the 1930s discovered prostaglandins, the remarkable hormones used in birth control pills, and who was co-winner of the 1970 Nobel Pri/e in Physiology for his work in detecting noradrenaline, a key neurotransmitter that controls such involuntary actions as the heartbeat and the body's response to stress; of arterial disease; in Stockholm. Von Euler's research led to the identification of a number of so-called transmitter substances, including polypeptides, which appear to be the agents that deliver messages of pain to the brain...
RECOVERING. Danny Kaye, 70, globe-trotting comic entertainer and good-will ambassador for UNICEF; after two weeks of hospitalization for chest pains and irregular heartbeat led to quadruple coronary-bypass surgery; in Los Angeles...
...music. Songwriting teams like Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil composed terrific teen anthems for the girl groups. Producers Phil Specter, Shadow Morton and Holland-Dozier-Holland encased the adenoidal voices in a cushion of strings, saxophones and heartbeat percussion. In those years before rock became Ph.D. fodder, the girl-group sound married musical sophistication and the saving emotional jolt. That sound retains its power and appeal. On record, at least, the dream girls are still beautiful...
...opponents, he outworked them. "I'm just a plow hand from Arkansas," he would say. "But I've learned over the years how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they've got one heartbeat, together, a team...
...John C. Willkie, speaking for the right-to-life group, asserted that life is present the first day after conception, and that only abortion is equal to killing a human being. He illustrated his points with statistical graphs, a taped recording of the heartbeat of a fetus, and graphic slides of aborted features...