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...loved ones to enter into the Valley of Death with them, achieving a feeling of communion and identification. The reflected images in the highly polished stone increase the sense of unity with those being remembered. A memorial of any other design could not capture this sensation. Lucile Reade Snohomish, Wash...
Clark, a 61-year-old retired dentist from Des Moines, Wash., had just become the first human to receive a permanently implanted artificial heart. As he stirred to consciousness, Clark signaled Surgeon William DeVries that he was not in pain. For DeVries, 38, that satisfying moment was the culmination of the three years he had spent perfecting the technique that made the implant possible, and waiting for a patient who met the rigorous criteria established for implant candidates by the Food and Drug Administration. No wonder DeVries described the 7½-hr. operation as being "almost a spiritual experience...
Despite the improvements, the main reason people live in these units is still price. Where else could Mark Bronson, 32, a social worker in Kennewick, Wash., who earns $16,000 a year, get a two-bedroom house, complete with wall-to-wall carpeting, built-in appliances and other furnishings, that costs $20,000? Says his wife Janice, 27: "Our home is part of the American dream, on a lesser plane...
...house that is firmly planted in the ground. Nice as their mobile home has been in the economic pinch, Janice Bronson, for one, would welcome the switch. Says she: "This one does not have a sense of permanence. For one thing, when I run a load of wash, I can't have a record playing; the whole house shakes...
...bought him out in 1976 for 450,000 shares of Grace stock, worth about $17.5 million at current prices. At Grace, Cano is president of El Torito-La Fiesta Restaurants (1981 sales: $150 million); he has expanded the division into a 90-unit operation with restaurants strung from Tacoma, Wash., to Tampa. Up to 15 will be added next year...