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...content with an FM transmitter so small that it can be swallowed for broadcasting from inside the digestive tract (TIME, April 22), medical research-TS and electronics designers have produced a microphone so small that it can be put in the end of a catheter (flexible tube) and worked through a blood vessel right into the heart. Developed by New Jersey's Gulton Industries, Inc., the microphone is one-twentieth of an inch in diameter, three-quarters of an inch long. Dr. Howard L. Moscovitz of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital has used it to diagnose heart defects...
...Prentice-Hall; more than 100,000 copies), offers seven commandments for self help. The Four Don'ts: 1) "Don't acquiesce ignobly!" 2) "Don't evade craven-lyi" 3) "Don't .attack vindictively!" 4) "Don't rush rashly!" The Three Do's: 1) "Do grapple courageously!" 2) "Do cooperate creatively!" 3) "Do adventure spiritually!" All of this is achieved by putting oneself in a semihypnotic trance, the main danger of which "is that you might go to sleep." If sleep is evaded, one flips to the front of the book and charts...
...Ts & Splits. With so much dogged making of muscle and butting of heads, fans are often fooled into thinking that football is a game for muscleheads. The men who play for Duffy Daugherty know differently. On autumn Saturdays, when the chips are down, the Spartans play a game as intricate and demanding as any yet devised. Where other teams are satisfied to practice and perfect a single style of attack-the single wing, which piles blockers into a bludgeoning phalanx ahead of the ball carrier; the T formation, with its quick-opening plays and tricky hand-off s; the split...
...that heart disease and heart attacks need cause far less of the chill dread that used to surround them (see box). "Perhaps the most dangerous thing we doctors can do in managing patients with heart or artery disease," says Page, "is to discourage them with too many don'ts. It is disturbing to me to read medical recipes for long life which first prohibit smoking, then alcohol, and tell you to cut out butter and other fats, and end by suggesting that some kinds of cancer can be avoided by total abstention from sexual intercourse. That is limiting life...
...club, the young executive finds there are strict dos and don'ts. In some, second, third, and fourth-rank clubs, a member can get away with making a direct pitch for business, talk shop either on the greens or in the locker room. But at front-rank clubs, the hustler is shunned like the plague. The good clubs are hard to get into and expensive (up to $6,000 for the initiation fee alone), and most members resent an obvious mixing of business with pleasure...