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Dana Wilson, 41, a lumber company manager in Mehama, Ore., had been taking drugs to control the occasional irregular beating of his heart following a massive heart attack. But the treatment proved unsuccessful; one day several months after the attack, his heart began to race, reaching 250 beats per minute before returning to normal. Doctors turned to an innovative method of studying arrhythmias. They threaded electrodes into his heart and electrically stimulated the tissue to induce the erratic beating. Trying different drugs, they learned that none would be helpful in treating Wilson's condition. But by moving the electrodes...
...seemed to lumber ponderously down the runway for years, but now cable television is definitely airborne. A quarter of the nation's 77.8 million TV homes are hooked up to one of the 4,600 local cable companies that pipe into living rooms everything from first-run movies, hard-sell religion and soft-core porn shows to kiddie programs and the proceedings of Congress live. Cable-systems owners, present or prospective, are as hot on Wall Street as genetic engineering firms, and advertisers are beginning to eye cable TV as a promising vehicle for commercials. Though at present...
...locale is Chicago, but no Chicago known to man. The central character, Shlink, a Malaysian lumber dealer, looks like an angular Dr. Fu Manchu. Shlink (Seth Allen) offers to buy a library clerk's opinion of a mystery thriller. The clerk, a romantic idealist named George Garga (Don Scardino), offers to sell Rimbaud's critique, but proudly announces that his own cannot be bought...
Brecht never underestimated the latent power of masochism. One can only kick a stone so many times before one breaks one's toe. Shlink, a wily masochist, turns over his lumber plant to Garga and thus entraps him. Garga must now buy and sell not only lumber but human beings. Shlink and Garga exchange fortunes, trying to out-toy fate. Unfortunately, Director David Jones understresses the Rimbaud-Verlaine love-hate homosexual bond, which is at the core of the drama. At play's end Shlink takes his own life with a vial of poison, and Garga moves...
...while, the Huskies kept pace with the Crimson, holding a 6-5 lead after three innings. But the squad that has scored 15 or more runs five times this year brought out its lumber and pounded out a season-high 28 hits, raising the team's record...