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DIED. Italo Calvino, 61, Italian author of fanciful imagination and technical virtuosity who used surreal fables and phantasmagorical science fiction to express thoroughly modern, realistic observations on human absurdity; of complications following a stroke; in Siena, Italy. A Resistance fighter during World War II, he drew on his partisan experiences in early, realistic works like The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947), but turned more and more to fantasy in such books as The Baron in the Trees (1957), Invisible Cities (1973), The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1974) and If on a Winter Night a Traveler...
Rowing at a consistent 37 strokes per minute, the Harvard crew of Neil Olsen, Dan Grout, Arthur Hollingsworth, George Hunnewell, Rich Kennelly, Curt Pieckenhagen, Andrew Hawley, Andy Sudduth at stroke and Mahony at cox kept pulling further away and Princeon's challenge fell by the wayside in the final part of the race...
Princeton stroke Harry Becker, a member of Canada's Olympic team, said that his squad "didn't mean to let them go out as far as they did." He added that he "didn't know they were so far ahead...
...five patients who have so far received permanent Jarvik-7 hearts, three are still alive. But all have suffered serious complications. William Schroeder, 53, at 42 weeks the longest survivor, has had two strokes; his speech and memory are impaired. Murray Haydon, 59, also had a stroke. Swedish Businessman Leif Stenberg, 53, the only non-American to receive a Jarvik-7 and the patient who had fared the best so far, recently suffered a severe stroke in Stockholm. Stenberg's misfortune was particularly disappointing to Heart Developer Robert Jarvik; the heart implanted in the Swede was a newer version...
...bimedia star of Family Ties' Michael J. Fox, whose Back to the Future and Teen Wolf were the biggest box-office winners of the past two weeks. Fox could be the first teen throb since John Travolta to commute between a sitcom and movie stardom. Just another lightning stroke of NBC luck...