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...size of half a tennis ball); the larger the infarct, the more strain is put on the heart. It also depends on how efficiently the heart develops collateral circulation to feed and repair the damaged area. Even if convalescence is rapid and without complications, no doctor can commit himself on what "complete" recovery would be in terms of the responsibilities and pressures of the presidency. Said Dr. White: "I haven't seen any Presidents with coronary thrombosis...
...could an old hand like Ehrenburg, who got a remarkable fan letter on the occasion of an earlier book ("I have enjoyed your novel very much.-J Stalin."), commit such a mistake? Well since Fan Stalin died, the word had got around somehow that it was all right to have novels with people in them again-just like Tolstoy. The New Neanderthalers in The Thaw-bureaucrats, engineers, state artists-are not exactly people, but sometimes Author Ehrenburg lets them wonder in a dull-witted way why they are not. Perhaps the Ice Age of Communism might some day thaw. Savchenko...
...last year's top-flight forward wall. It consistently rushed UMass passers and held the losers to a bare 110 yards on the ground. Harvard totaled 510. It is a thinking line, to judge from the care such yeoman performers as Bill Meigs and Orville Tice took not to commit themselves too early in a play...
Poor Joan-not even the censor can save her. But he can make it legal. Jeff, it suddenly turns out. was only paying a debt of honor when he drove the other widow to her death-and besides, the lady didn't commit suicide after all. She was mur dered by one of Jeff's jealous girl friends. "The past," sighs Joan, as she clings to him, "is buried under a lot of dead years...
Employee: If I knew he was going to commit sabotage? Certainly I would tell them, because he would only be hurting himself...