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...good rule to leave a foreign body alone unless the heart continues to rebel against its presence, report Dr. Edward F. Bland of Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Gilbert W. Beebe of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. The heart usually accommodates itself to any hunk of metal that does not interfere with the working of a valve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Bullets in the Heart | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...headed into the sacrebleu yonder. Said one official: "In no time at all we are likely to be sued for millions of dollars all over the country." As for the Blue Bird's owner, things were looking up. Not only did he seem likely to get a good hunk of the $400,000 he had sued for, but he had finally succeeded in selling two more apartments-to deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damage Suits: Jet Age Precedent | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...immaculate, cement-lined chamber nearby, a hoist operator scanned two closed-circuit TV screens that monitor the ore buckets, make sure they are dumping properly into large collection bins. Above ground, at the end of the production process, refinery workers were pouring Brick No. 37,035-a 30-lb. hunk of solid gold worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Gold from Lead | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...years the Interstate Sanitation Commission had declared that the waters of Raritan Bay, a sizable hunk of New York Harbor, were fit for swimming, boating and fishing. When the New Republic's new reporter, James Ridgeway, took a look at Raritan in 1963, he came to an opposite conclusion. "Not unlike the environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: Responsible Muckraker | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

They have names like The Bag I'm In, a leather goods store, Snug, a bar which is, and Little Pleasures, an ice cream and sweets parlor. Soup's On is a restaurant offering a big bowl of the stuff, a hunk of French bread and coffee for a buck, while Chances R and its sister restaurant across the street (called Across the Street) push a ton of hamburger and give away half a ton of peanuts every week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: A New Time for Old Town | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

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