Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have brains and discipline, easy humor and an undented faith in this land and its system. He arrived to take his Fellow's spot with then Vice President Ford's office on Aug. 9, just 3½ hours before he became an aide to a President. The harassed Seidman, whose assistant Porter would be, welcomed him. "Great," said Seidman, and then the two of them were swept along in the maelstrom of the historic presidential power change...
...often perform open-heart surgery that is technically perfect only to have the patient die soon after the operation, because his previously weakened heart cannot bear the added burden of surgical shock. To ease the load on ailing hearts, doctors have for several years used implantable balloon pumps (TIME, Aug. 23, 1971) and other devices that are designed to be removed surgically after recovery. A system developed at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center carries this heart-assist technology a significant step forward. Their pump not only provides a postoperative boost but can be connected again without major surgery...
...more trouble in the Kallinger home. Joseph Jr., 13, was sent to a state psychiatric facility for observation and treatment. The reason was the boy's homosexual involvement with an older man. After a six-month stay, Joseph Jr. returned home for a month, then ran away. Last Aug. 8, his body was found under the rubble of a collapsed building in downtown Philadelphia. That also was reported in the local press. Police still do not know the cause of the boy's death, but one month before it occurred, Kallinger had taken out life insurance policies...
Some effort toward forming an organization was made last summer when 2,400 leaders from 150 countries converged for an Evangelical congress in Lausanne (TIME, Aug. 5).* Last week in Mexico City, 41 members of the Continuation Committee that was authorized at Lausanne held their first meeting. To the world's pre-eminent Evangelical, Billy Graham, it came at a strategic time. Claiming that some liberals have, in effect, set up a new competing religion, he told the committee that "Evangelicalism has been raised up of God as a vigorous reaffirmation of historic first century Christianity...
...AUG. 15. A week after Nixon's resignation, President Ford suggests, at a breakfast meeting with the amendment's Senate backers, that an 18-month waiver be put on its punitive provisions. He promises to act unilaterally to invoke them if Soviet assurances to Kissinger of liberalized emigration are not carried...