Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title refers to the roll of drums by which the inhabitants of a city under siege announce surrender; since it also denotes a feverish heartbeat, it is a handy metaphor for a romantic novel. The heart that beats retreat belongs to lovely, lazy Lucile, who at 30 has been drifting gracefully through an affair with a wealthy, fiftyish fellow named Charles. She meets Antoine, a young, intense and impecunious publisher's reader, who supplements his income by living with Clare, a middle-aged Parisian hostess...
...Doptone, based on the Doppler effect, transmits a narrow beam of very-high-frequency sound into the abdomen, detects fetal life and heartbeat after the tenth week of gestation, with out harming the mother. It also pin points blockages in peripheral arteries, as a guide to surgery...
...Chick's Heartbeat. NASA Consultant Quentin L. Hartwig reported a fascinating example of the application of space research to earth-bound medicine. To record the impact of a speck of interplanetary dust on a man or vehicle in space, Engineer Vernon Rogallo devised an instrument so sensitive that it registered the force of a single grain of salt dropped less than one-half of an inch. Then, at the NASA Ames research center in California, Rogallo overheard a cafeteria conversation between two biologists: How could they record the heartbeat of a six-day-old chick embryo without piercing...
Rogallo made minor modifications in his dust detector, the biologists supplied the egg, and the unborn chick's heartbeat registered strongly through its unbroken shell. As proof, Rogallo exhibited the live and healthy chick of a bobwhite quail whose incubation had been monitored but undisturbed. And, said Dr. Hartwig proudly, the Food and Drug Administration is completing the space-to-chick-to-man cycle: it is using Rogallo's sensor to study the effects of drugs on the heart...
...Gaulle returned to the political scene: "With a lover's passion and a surgeon's skill, Charles de Gaulle listens closely to the heartbeat of France...