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...Brattle. CASABLANCA is a love vs. war flick with Bogart saying a lot of meaninglessly cool things to Ingrid Bergman--whose love handle are not featured in the film. Anyway, war wins out the end, proving that, given the alternative of bedding down with a gorgeous Swede and playing around with a rickety old plane, men almost always prefer machines to blondes...
...stroke. Swedish Businessman Leif Stenberg, 53, the only non-American to receive a Jarvik-7 and the patient who had fared the best so far, recently suffered a severe stroke in Stockholm. Stenberg's misfortune was particularly disappointing to Heart Developer Robert Jarvik; the heart implanted in the Swede was a newer version, in which Jarvik had replaced the original polycarbonate valve housings and aluminum base with polyurethane components to reduce the danger of clotting. Stenberg's surgeon Bjarne Semb told TIME, "It seems now that we have to be somewhat restrictive. The main indication is that the heart...
...nights later, McEnroe had little trouble disposing of the 10th-seeded Nystrom, and despite being extended to five sets by another Swede--3rd-ranked Mats Wilander in the semis--it appeared as though be would do the same to Lendl. Indeed the oddsmakers were predicting that only the one-hour rain delay yesterday would prevent McEnroe from a three-set victory in the finals...
...bearded V.R. ("Swede") Roskam was even more ebullient than usual. "Everybody wins!" he boomed two weeks ago, as he was announcing next year's recipients of some 50 college scholarships from his own imaginative, nonprofit enterprise. The organization, which he set up two years ago in Glen Ellyn, Ill., is called Assistance Ltd. Roskam, an industrial sales executive with a soft spot for small private colleges and young scholars looking for help, finds a school that needs equipment. Then he talks corporations into donating excess equipment as tax-deductible gifts. The colleges in turn arrange for scholarships equaling the value...
...Bobs, the Don, the Ian, and the last one -- Keith, or Ken?" Their bemused father cannot tell them apart at family gatherings. As for the patriarch's grandchildren, they "seem to belong to a new national type, with round heads, and quite large front teeth. You would think some Swede or other had been around Montreal on a bicycle so as to create this new national type...