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Modern medicine has a battery of devices that greatly reduce the dangers of heart attacks - provided they are used in time. The electrocardiograph gives the physician a continuous moving pic ture of how the damaged heart is behaving. A simple oxygen system will do the patient's breathing for him. If his heart stops, electric paddles restart...
Cubes & Guitars. The show, in sum, is a mirror of modern French sculp ture. The son of a poor Parisian worker, Laurens began his career, after stud ies with a decorative sculptor, in a rundown house on a dead end Montmartre street. The year was 1911. Cub ism was in full flower, and Georges Braque lived only a few doors away...
...attacked St. Louis Pitcher Bob Gibson on the mound. It took all of two seconds for Gibson's teammates to reach the scene - and it took 20 cops ten minutes to break up the battle that ensued. The best that could be said for Lee's ges ture was that it was quixotic. The Cardinals won the game 7-3. They also won the fight - one bloody face, one bruised jaw and one chipped tooth to none...
...equalled by whatsoever great masters in his time for boldness, softness, sweetness and sureness of touch." The son of a Smithfield clothworker, Inigo Jones was trained as a painter, studied in Italy, and was largely responsible for putting England back into the mainstream of Renaissance cul ture, from which it had been isolated by the Reformation. Appointed the Crown's surveyor-general in 1615, Jones turned into an architect of note, designing the portico to St. Paul's Cathedral and the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall with the serene neoclassicism of Italy's Palladio, thus banishing forever burly...
...their products (down 7% in the same period), farmers are bitter and increasingly rebellious. "The biggest untold story in America," declares Oren Lee Staley, head of the militant National Farmers Organization and leader of the milk-dumping drive, is the unrest and dissatisfaction of the farmers." Even na ture seems to be conspiring against them. Cutting a wide swath through the southern Great Plains, a serious drought has gravely endangered the winter wheat crop-which accounts for three-fourths of the nation's annual wheat production...