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They were moving ; and the ink lines grew to tell a story of temperature and respiration and of every heart-beat . On the identification-plate a name appeared and a date : `` Chet Bullard -- 23 years . Admitted : August 10 , 1973 . '' And below that the ever-changing present ticked into the past in silent minutes : `` August 15 , 1973 ; World Standard Time : 10:38 -- 10:39 -- 10:40 -- '' For five days the minutes had trickled into a rivulet of time that flowed past a bandaged figure in the bed below -- a silent figure and unmoving , as one for whom time has ceased . But the surgeons of the Allied Hospital at Vienna are clever . 10:41 -- 10:42 -- The bandaged figure stirred uneasily on a snow-white bed ... * * * * * A nurse was beside him in an instant . Was her patient about to recover consciousness ?