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...Tunnel of Love (by Joseph Fields and Peter DeVries; based on DeVries' novel) suggests at the outset a satiric cannonade on that citadel of Exurbanites and seacoast bohemia, Westport, Conn. But it soon abandons anything so highbrow and becomes an illustrated jokebook on styles in childbearing. When married women aren't having children, unmarried ones are; or couples are adopting; or the sins of the fathers become the adoptees of their wives...
...whole, it both bogs down as a tale and goes out of bounds in the telling. Motherhood may or may not be sacred, but it cannot for three acts without respite be altogether happily profane; the theme turns more than dubious, it turns dull. And the telling in Tunnel is no help. In dealing exclusively with errant husbands, expectant wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead...
...M.P.H. SPEEDS for intercontinental missiles will be studied at Cornell University under new $1,000,000 Air Force contract. School will build hypersonic wind tunnel and high-temperature research apparatus, test models at 15 times speed of sound and temperatures close to sun's surface (10,000°F.). Biggest job: to develop metals that can withstand such heat...
...ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky, the hospital called Presidential Cardiologist Thomas Mattingly for consultation. Colonel Mattingly had the diagnosis in jigtime: a rupture, creating a tunnel between the aorta and the right auricle of the heart...
Such an accident in the heart is extremely rare. Heretofore, it has nearly always proved fatal. Surgeons considered two operations for stitching up the ruptured valve, decided against them as offering no real hope of success. Then a visiting Swede. Dr. Hans Erik Hanson, suggested plugging the tunnel with a plastic sponge shaped like a long-stemmed golf tee. That was in June...