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...capable of such fine chemical discrimination that no machine yet visualized can come near matching it. But with uncommon ingenuity and commonplace materials, researchers have produced an effective stand-in which does its most obvious and important jobs. Head and shoulders above other kidney makers is tall, tart Willem Johan Kolff, 48, of the Cleveland Clinic. Physician Kolff made his gadgeteering breakthrough in his native Netherlands during the Nazi occupation...
...JOHAN C. BjORK Oslo, Norway
...crop-headed longtime Finnish statesman and Finland's President from 1946 to 1956, who negotiated three peace treaties with Russia (1920, 1940, 1944), successfully guided his country along a tortuous path between excessive appeasement and foolhardy provocation of its carnivorous neighbor; of a heart attack; in Helsinki. Born Johan August Hellsten, he changed his Swedish name to its Finnish equivalent before he entered politics, served twice as Finnish Premier (1918, 1944-46) before running for President. In 1955 he made his seventh official journey to the Kremlin1, negotiated a 20-year mutual defense pact, wangled a promise that Russia...
...eight days and 800 pages of testimony in Federal Court in Manhattan, a handsome, boyish Swedish merchant marine officer unemotionally went back and forth over the dozen minutes of his life that he would never forget nor be allowed to forget. On the night of July 25, Third Mate Johan-Ernst Carstens-Johannsen, 26, was in command of the bridge of the 12,500-ton Swedish liner Stockholm when she speared and sank the 29,000-ton Italian liner Andrea Doria. At stake, as he told his story, were not only legal claims totaling some $40 million but the still...
...chest and inserted tubes in the two great veins carrying used blood to the heart. When they clamped off these veins, they forced the blood out through the tubes, which fed it to a combined pump and oxygenator, the heart-lung machine developed by Cleveland Clinic's Willem Johan Kolff (TIME, Oct. 31). From the machine the blood was fed back into the body through an artery in the chest, bypassing the heart...