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Rubinstein has no idea how he produces his tone. It comes partly from a physique that looks as though it had walked out of a fun-house mirror. His dimensions (5 ft. 8 in., 167 Ibs.) are deceiving. His trunk is too short for his legs; yet he has the arms and hands of a man twice his size. His biceps are as big as a shotputter's, and his fist looks like the business end of a sledge hammer. His fingers, whose tips are cushioned from years of "cleaning the piano's teeth," are spatula-shaped; the all-important...
...Vineberg principle but using different vessels to carry blood to the heart muscle. Cleveland's Dr. Earle B. Kay reported that he and Dr. Akio Suzuki cut out a piece of the left lung's arterial network with "a multitude of side branches," and sew the "trunk" end into the descending aorta. Then they implant the smaller branches in the heart muscle. The advantage of this method, which has so far been successful in four out of six patients, said Dr. Kay, is that the blood vessels borrowed from the lung can be sewn into any part...
...Walton Lillelehi's team from the University of Minnesota described a similar technique, using part of the network of veins from the patient's own thigh. The trunk vein is sewn into the aorta, and the branches are set in tunnels in the heart-wall muscle-tunnels through which a surgical knife has been run, deliberately cutting several small, transverse arteries, to open them up so that they can receive the new blood supply. Ten of these patients, said Dr. Randolph M. Ferlic, who suffered from crippling angina even when they were sitting down and not exerting themselves...
...young mechanic and a girl pharmacist. Then, after dark, the three drove to a wooded area, where Karl-Heinz broke out a bundle of stolen U.S. army gear. Within minutes, the two men were dressed as a couple of casual G.I.s, and the girl was hidden in the trunk. Finally, Karl-Heinz replaced the car's West Berlin license tags with U.S. military plates, and headed for Checkpoint Charlie, where uniformed Western servicemen can drive in and out without Communist inspection. It worked like a charm. As the car was waved through to West Berlin, neither the passengers...
...began, Ontario Hydro explained last week, when a backup relay -a breadbox-size fuse-blew on power line Q-29BW after Ontario had been requested by Syracuse to up the voltage. The blowout disconnected the line from service; when Q-29BW's load transferred automatically to four other trunk lines running westward out of Beck, they were knocked out as well. With no place to go, the peak-hour power buildup reversed its flow, cascaded eastward through two 230,000-volt tie lines across Niagara Gorge. In a wave that lasted only five-sixths of a second, the wild...