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...ordained minister, the Conservatives have attacked Botha's plan as being too radical and accused him of leading South Africa toward "total integration." As Treurnicht said to his supporters at a Pietersburg rally, "The Prime Minister's stance has aroused the tiger in many Afrikaners, and the heartbeat of the nation tells me we are on the right road...
...model, drawings and photographs at MOMA of Neutra's famous Lovell House, built between 1927 and 1929 in the arid Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, still quicken the viewer's heartbeat. There had been nothing like it before, nor was there to be anything like it during that decade, not even in avant-garde Europe, where Mies van der Robe's pristinely trend-setting steel-and-glass Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was completed a year later...
...Irish Mafia, named by Sander Vanocur, then NBC White House Correspondent, still controlled the heartbeat of J.F.K.'s three-year-old Administration. In Scammon's mellow hindsight, there is no doubt that the tough, pragmatic, but often tender and poetic, strains of the Kennedy stewardship reflected the political culture of the Boston Irish and the legacy of J.F.K.'s grandfather, Honey Fitz...
...children of the '60s, have found a new constituency: premature babies. Studies have shown that preemies sleep better, grow faster and generally seem more contented when their incubators are fitted with waterbeds. Researchers at Stanford University also found that gently oscillating waterbeds reduce breathing difficulties and encourage normal heartbeat in sleeping preemies, perhaps because the pulsations mimic some aspects of the uterine environment. Preemie intensive care units, notes one researcher, tend to be "noisy, bright, loud places with constant activity. Anyone who has spent time there can see that the babies look more comfortable on properly regulated waterbeds...
...that book in a Paris bookstall in April 1959-the 13th I believe it was, the afternoon, it was drizzling-that I found it after searching all Europe and North America for a copy; that it is dog-eared at passages that mean more to my life than my heartbeat; that the mere touch of its pages recalls to me in a Proustian shower my first love, my best dreams. Should I mind that you seek to take all that away? That I will undoubtedly never get it back? Then even if you actually return...