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What really counts is a strong and steady beat in the left ventricle to send blood coursing through the trunk to the head and limbs. Once that is achieved, nature is likely to take over and get the rest of the circulatory system, including the three other chambers, to work effectively in unison. However, if both left and right ventricles have been severely damaged, they might be replaced by a two-in-one prosthesis with a single pump (see diagram, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Texas Tornado | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...also grander. For an extra $495, a Cadillac buyer can get a combination heating-and-air-conditioning system that automatically maintains the temperature of his choice throughout the year; for another $141, his car will be upholstered in genuine leather. Continental offers individually adjustable contour seats and a powered trunk lid that is unlocked and opened with a dashboard control. More than 45% of Imperial customers order vinyl-covered roofs for an additional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: That Luxurious Feeling | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...Eisenhower, 74, that was certainly something to think about. Next day the old soldier's worry list lengthened unexpectedly. While he was in Washington for a physical checkup, thieves broke into his parked Lincoln Continental and found the secret button inside the glove compartment that unlocked the trunk. Though they left several suitcases of clothes, they heisted the car's spare tire, a $170 portable radio, a $10 box of candy, and the oxygen kit Ike uses when he gets short of breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...limousine appears in Trieste at the beginning of World War II, bought by a cranky American millionairess (Ingrid Bergman) who heads for the Yugoslav border spouting kind words about Hitler, though she cannot abide Roosevelt or Reds. Thanks to the rebel partisan (Omar Sharif) stowed away in her trunk, Actress Bergman -radiantly unconvincing throughout-takes an abrupt Left turn, ends up ferrying guerrillas through the mountains and dropping 20 years from her characterization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back-Seat Romance | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...wont, haphazardly stuffed parts of it into desk drawers and notebooks around the house. When he died at 80 in 1954, what remained of the final movement was an incomplete jumble of illegible manuscripts. Then, by chance, the missing pages of the movement were discovered in an old trunk, and musicologists set about the laborious task of deciphering Ives's penciled scrawlings. The polyphonic thickets were so incredibly dense that it took ten years to work the movement into playable shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Cantankerous Yankee | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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