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...pump in question was the plastic "half-heart" attached to the chest wall of Marcel L. DeRudder, 65, in Houston's Methodist Hospital (TIME, April 29). For more than 41 days, with never a falter after the first hour, it had done three-quarters of the work normally done by the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber. What suddenly killed DeRudder last week was a rupture of the left lung. A plastic tube slipped through a small cut in his windpipe had been delivering oxygen under pressure to his lungs. What actually caused the rupture...
Inventive, ingenious and daring surgery took another step last week toward the ultimate goal of replacing human hearts hopelessly damaged by disease. The operation at Houston's Methodist Hospital was not, as racing-pulse press reports first proclaimed, "history's first implant of an artificial heart," but it incorporated famed Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey's latest refinements of a device on which he and his colleagues at Baylor and Rice universities have worked for eight years. And it gave a doomed patient renewed hope of life...
...built in the shape of an obelisk, a new air terminal constructed on the principle of an Arab's silken tent, a new garage like a Pueblo chiefs dwelling. Among the most daring patrons of the new architecture are U.S. churches, Mrs. Porter Brown, general secretary of the Methodist Board of Missions, argued recently that cathedrals were symbolic of a static community, while today's churches should be "fellowship buildings created to serve persons on the move or in pilgrimage...
Other philosophical theologians, such as Schubert Ogden of Southern Methodist University and John Cobb of the Southern California School of Theology, have been working out a theism based on the process thinking of Alfred North Whitehead. In their view, God is changing with the universe. Instead of thinking of God as the immutable Prime Mover of the universe, argues Ogden, it makes more sense to describe him as "the ultimate effect" and as "the eminently relative One, whose openness to change contingently on the actions of others is literally boundless." In brief, the world is creating God as much...
...Principally Thomas J. J. Altizer of Emory University, William Hamilton of Colgate Rochester Divinity School, and Paul Van Buren of Temple University. Satirizing the basic premise of their new non-theology, the Methodist student magazine motive recently ran an obituary of God in newspaper style: "ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 9?God, creator of the universe, principal deity of the world's Jews, ultimate reality of Christians, and most eminent of all divinities, died late yesterday during major surgery undertaken to correct a massive diminishing influence. "Reaction from the world's great and from the man in the street was uniformly incredulous...