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...Winchell's most impressive invention is the artificial heart, which was inspired in part by his mother's death of heart complications following a major infection. "I couldn't see any reason against an artificial heart; it doesn't do anything except pump," said Winchell. "If properly conceived and tied into the circulation system I saw no reason why it couldn't be successful...
After patenting his plastic heart pump in 1963, Winchell offered it to the American Medical Association and American Heart Association. Neither was interested at the time because Winchell had not produced a working model. But the University of Utah's Dr. Willem Kolff was. Kolff, who had already invented the first artificial kidney that patients could use, looked over Winchell's design and found it similar to one he had been working on. He invited the entertainer to work and experiment at the medical center (where Winchell also assisted in transplants...
...week's first victim was James Trainor, 22, a mechanic in a service station just off the motorway. Trainor apparently recognized the two men who drove up to his gasoline pump in a green sedan; he was hit by a fusillade of bullets as he tried to escape them. Peter Watterson, 15, was sprayed with automatic fire from a car as he stood in the doorway of his mother's candy store. Next morning, Francis Smith, 28, a former Catholic who had joined the U.D.A., was found face down in an alley near his home. The I.R.A. said...
...important shift, states and localities have begun to run significant budget surpluses-as high as $ 12 billion last year. They have been helped by local tax increases in recent years, as well as higher personal incomes due to the economic surge. This year the Federal Government will pump out $6 billion in revenue-sharing funds for states and localities to spend as they see fit. Revenue sharing will make up for some of the slowdown in growth of federal grants for specific projects...
...conditions never change. Though both believed in a strong government that would not flinch from taking resolute action, they were hostile to big bureaucracy, with its overcentralization and deadening uniformity. They preferred to accept society in all its luxuriant if inegalitarian variety; they made a policy of trying to pump life and vigor into local government. As an American politician, Nixon can hardly endorse aristocracy but he would surely agree with Disraeli's praise of the aristocratic system in England as ready to receive "every man in every order and every class who defers to the principle...