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...Although he had done it in the past, Hansen feared that he might not be able to "will" his heart back to working. He turned on an electrocardiograph, then, "simply by allowing everything to stop," silenced his heartbeat for five seconds. After a deep breath, he was back to normal. Last week, writing in California Medicine, Dr. Charles M. McClure of Lindsay, Calif, confirmed Hansen's ability to stop his heart voluntarily, without any physical maneuvers: "The case ... is unusual, perhaps unique...
...McClure believes that Hansen's unusual ability to control his heartbeat is related to rheumatic-fever damage, and "is just an exaggeration of the normal degree of control which any person's mind has over his heart actions...
...understood, or have different meanings to different people. The tragedy of Ionesco's world is that people think words have meaning, try to use them to communicate and, hence, fail completely to know anything or anyone. The language of this world is the cliche and the pun. The normal reply is a non sequitur. As might be imagined, Ionesco is not an easy playwright to stage. Tufts handled him with courage and imagination, doing a fine job with Jack, and a perfectly adequate lesson...
...Government of the U.S. can help to bring this about by providing an adequate and realistic new revenue act that would equalize plant and equipment replacement costs, finance normal or expanding needs of the steel industry, as well as curb inflationary tendencies, meet foreign competition, hold the price line and increase wages...
...Beverly Hills, Calif. Though in private life Reeves resembled prissy Clark Kent more than Superman, he gloried in the role, kept in shape with bar bells beside his bed, but when Superman turned into reruns (1957) he was too closely identified with his extrahuman role to get a normal, worldly...