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...Japanese are more skillful with our hands than Westerners." Last week, with his abdomen tense and sore, he knew that the eagerly hoped-for day had arrived. Staggering into an operating room, he got a nurse to sterilize his midriff and hands, help him into a sterile smock and mask. Then he clambered onto the operating table. When Chief Surgeon Mikio Takahashi protested, Dr. Ohmura replied: "I have only one appendix; it's my only chance...
...dissimilarities mask a pair of brilliant, happily meshed minds that operate effortlessly with talk that often runs to truncated sentences, single words, esoteric expressions. Ramo spends most of his time on missile work while Wooldridge handles the rest, but both decide company policy. So well tuned are the two, says one R-W executive, "that they seem almost twins. Working together, they are not the equivalent of two men, but something a little closer...
...villa in suburban Cairo one night last week went Canadian Ambassador Herbert Norman. 47, just back from seeing the Japanese movie, Mask of Destiny, with an Egyptian friend. Alone in the villa's great, silent library after midnight, Norman poured himself some straight shots of whisky while his wife slept in her bedroom. Next morning, weary from months of overwork, heavy-eyed from an almost sleepless night, Norman left home without waking his wife, walked slowly to the eight-story Nile View apartment building near by. Moments after he entered the building, he appeared on the roof-a tall...
...luxury that always seems rented, Miranda in the shabby comfort of a Greenwich Village house that is acrawl with Siamese cats and intellectual gentility. What Miranda Page would call a "relationship" seems impossible between two people so alien to each other. But as a veteran of suspense fiction (The Mask of Alexander), Author Albrand keeps the plot from collapsing. Booth inexorably moves in on Miranda with hammer locks of misunderstanding. In her politeness he manages to see incipient love, and in his calculated humility she is foolish enough to see kindness...
...heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story of this revolutionary progress, TIME Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant spent two weeks visiting 13 major heart-surgery centers, donned scrub suit, cap and mask to watch half a dozen operations from the edge of the operating table, saw hearts stopped, cut and patched according to the latest, most daring techniques. See MEDICINE, Surgery's New Frontier...