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...first heart attack, which they survive with varying degrees of disability, doctors so far have been baffled in efforts to find a safe and generally applicable way of helping the body to repair the damage. Italian surgeons pioneered with rerouting one or two small arteries from the upper chest to the heart wall. The operation is relatively minor and safe, but most U.S. cardiologists doubt that it does much good, if any. Cleveland's Dr. Claude S. Beck (TIME, March 25, 1957) and Manhattan's Dr. Samuel Thompson (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950) relied on a different principle...
...Baronofsky selected patients who were in no shape to withstand surgery. Working with Surgeon Elliot Senderoff and Radiologist John Boland, he focused an X-ray beam through the chest walls onto the heart muscle itself, in three or more treatments over a two-week period. By now the group has treated 28 patients and seen no ill effects, but encouraging signs that in the human subjects, as in the dogs, small coronary branches have increased and carried a bigger load...
...Venezuela is a varied land of goat-ridden droughtland, snowy peaks, Amazonian jungle and the lofty, remote eastern mesas where Sir Walter Raleigh looked for El Dorado. Bone-chilled peasants tend their flocks of goats on the slopes of a spur of the Andes; cowboys ride through the tough, chest-high grass of the llanos-Venezuela's central prairie-driving herds of bony cattle before them. In one of the few spots in Venezuela that are radically changed-a cooperative sugar farm on the estate of a Pérez Jiménez crony long since fled-a harvester...
...growling, brassy quality under even the floating notes, and the words and phrases are often bitten off or stretched into a kind of slurring leer, but at her best Singer Reese projects a vivid image-that of a tender roughneck who wears her heart square on her agitated chest, where it belongs...
Next morning, the repaired ventilators were pumping air back into the tunnel, but now the diggers were hampered by water, rising chest-high at the rock face. Grimly, nine foremen ordered the rescue teams out for fear they, too, might be trapped if the water-weakened shaft walls collapsed. Now the only hope was a special high-speed drill rushed down from the northern Transvaal 300 miles away to punch a 13-in. air and food hole straight down from the surface to the entombed men. But the drill hit solid rock 80 feet down, slowing...