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...pretty young Florida housewife who has suffered increasingly severe heart trouble since childhood reported proudly last week that she is now able to fix one meal a day, and hopes soon to go back to her office job. The secret of her progress is embedded in her heart. It is like a miniature bird cage. At the point where the aorta (the body's main artery) begins, surgeons have removed part of nature's valve, which was diseased, and replaced it with an ingenious steel-and-plastic gadget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bird Cage in the Heart | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...even better: he has already filed 46 cases, is well on his way to 90 or more actions. Among the giants on Bicks's court docket: General Motors, for acquiring Euclid Road Machinery Co.; General Electric, Westinghouse and ten other companies, on charges of conspiring to fix prices in the electrical industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trustbuster in a Bowler | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Lockheed will say nothing until the engineers are dead certain that they have pinpointed the cause of the crashes and have worked out a fix. But they are getting close, hope to have a verdict in ten days. The company has scheduled a meeting this week with representatives of the U.S. airlines that fly 115 Electras. Last week Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood R. Quesada flew out to a meeting with Lockheed Board Chairman Robert Gross, issued a statement saying that "we are satisfied that we are boring in on an area that is going to be definitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electra in the Wind | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...only action is inaction. But to mistake the story for the subject is to assume that a pearl is about grit. Amateur Novelist Lampedusa's real interest and achievement is to fashion an elegy for a predemocratic way of life, to evoke the melodramatic landscape of Sicily and fix its people against the backdrop of Italy's struggle for unification, like figures on a frieze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elegy for an Autocrat | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

Scrounged Parts. Only one satellite is needed for an accurate navigational fix, but when the Navy's system is operational in 1962, four satellites will crisscross in a synchronization planned to serve all quarters of the earth. The advantage to commercial shipping will be slight, since present methods are more than adequate. But the military significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rapid Transit | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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