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Marcel L. DeRudder, 65, a former miner, long a victim of rheumatic heart disease, had been unable to do any work for 21 years. Dr. DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28) and the cardiologists on his team soon found that DeRudder had a badly damaged and calcified mitral valve, through which blood passes from the left auricle to the left ventricle. This valve had worked so poorly for so long that the overtaxed left ventricle had become enlarged, flabby and inefficient. It was possible that Patient DeRudder could survive with nothing more than an artificial valve, but the surgeons could...
...Miners, it had been a long haul. Their impressive 27-1 season record had virtually demanded at least the No. 3 rank in the nation. Unconvinced outsiders claimed that the team had not really faced tough competition. Kentucky was certainly that. Coached by Old Master Adolph Rupp, the Wildcats were an impeccable, diligently honed unit. But the Miners, as one opposing coach observed, "don't let you play the way you want to." And they didn't let Kentucky. From the opening jump-off between Miner David Lattin and Wildcat Thad Jaracz, they had Kentucky off balance...
...Wildcats were completely out-maneuvered by the Texas Western team. Miner Coach Don Haskins put in 5-6 Willie Worsley in place of 6-3 Neville Shed just before game time, and the little man chipped in with 12 points...
...reopened but also prospered by introducing cost-cutting technical innovations. Among them: automated hoisting equipment; TV monitoring and short-wave communications; tungsten carbide bits, used to drill holes for explosives, that last for 450 ft. of drilling v. 16 in. for the old steel bits, and have doubled each miner's productivity. It takes an average three tons of ore to produce a single ounce of gold, but Homestake literally wrings out every ounce. The company salvages $300,000 worth of gold a year by such thrifty measures as washing workers' clothes and hands, vacuuming refinery walls...
...entire Australian economy, is due to complete modernization of the industry. Last week Sir Edward Warren announced that his Coal & Allied Industries Ltd. would open a new mine in Cessnock, 80 miles north of Sydney; it will be worked with automatic equipment, including a U.S.-manufactured continuous miner, which is operated by three men, crunches coal seams with spinning metal teeth and can chew out ten tons a minute. Helped by government tax allowances, mine owners have so far spent $236 million on such new equipment; 98% of Australia's rich black coal is now efficiently mined by machine...