Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debits in what one top American official calls the "double-entry bookkeeping" that governs U.S.-Soviet relations. For a balanced view of the true state of American-Russian affairs, both sides of the ledger must be examined. In one column are the credits: the nonproliferation treaty, the new cultural agreement, the Moscow-New York air flights, and the decision to hold disarmament talks. In the other column are considerable debits: Berlin, the Middle East, Cuba, Russian backing of North Viet Nam-and now Soviet threats to Czechoslovakia...
...manager, Justin de Villeneuve, 28, announced they will be married. But not right off, chums. "Twiggy and I will marry when she's 21," announced her steady companion, while the bride-to-be, looking older than her 18 years in a micro-toga, waggled her side curls in agreement. "I don't believe in marrying young," said the Twig. And there's another little thing, continued Justin: Twiggy says she wants a ring bigger than Liz Taylor's 33.19-carat, $305,000 sparkler-which might take time...
...heart transplants morally justified? Since all the principals at the symposium had performed transplants, they had answered this question long ago in their own minds. But there remained some sticking points in medical ethics. How to determine the death of the donor? On three criteria there was general agreement: The patient must no longer have any natural heartbeat, or respiration, or reflexes. Beyond that, he must have a "flat" electroencephalogram-no "brain wave" activity-but for how long? After the closed sessions in Cape Town, all that Spokesman Cooley could say was: "We have reached some agreement...
There have been only 25 human-heart transplants, with seven patients surviving-too small a sample for many firm conclusions. But there was quick agreement at Cape Town that the best surgical technique is that devised by Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., in which part of the recipient's old heart is left in place to reduce the number of blood-vessel connections needed and to protect the heart's electrical system. There was also surprising unanimity on the desirability of getting transplant patients out of bed and walking within 48 hours after their...
...wise. That aphorism applied in the U.S. last week as the 10% federal income tax surcharge went into effect after months of acrimony between the President and Congress. It had long been widely acknowledged that a tax increase was necessary to stifle inflation. The White House excepted, agreement was fairly general that a sizable cutback in government spending was also in order. A $6 billion cut was the congressional price for the tax bill, and both came to pass. The question last week was whether the combination would do what it was meant...