The Nation - News from Jan. 1, 1985

William J. Schroeder, his artificial heart beating faster to keep pace with more strenuous exercise, was joined by his wife and children as they prepared to toast a new year he hadn’t expected to see. And Margaret Schroeder recorded a message of thanks to those who have rooted for her husband’s recovery from the mechanical heart implant and subsequent stokes. The 52-year-old Jasper, Ind., man remained in serious but stable condition at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Ky.