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Trips, says DeBakey, are his major relaxation, and next month he takes off for Italy to receive the $16,000 St. Vincent Award of the Turin Academy of Medicine. By way of thanks, he will demonstrate some of his operations. There will also be trips to Brussels to see Marie Liliane, Princess de Réthy, for whose charitable organization DeBakey operates on many Belgian children, and to Paris to see the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Later come a week in Israel and a busman's holiday in Athens, with DeBakey demonstrating surgery while a guest of Queen...
...thousands of damage suits that were settled in U.S. courts last week, the average award to plaintiffs by judge and jury was less than $5,000. Four notable exceptions...
...Detroit, Michigan's Supreme Court affirmed a circuit court's award of $26,500 for "loss of society and companionship" to the parents of Linda Kay Hopkins, a Michigan State cheerleader killed at 21 in an auto collision five years ago. In rejecting the defendant's pleas that Linda's age made her independent, that her parents' means (they own three thriving Saginaw businesses) entitled them to no more than enough for funeral expenses, the court devised a formula calling for $1,000-a-year damages over the parents' remaining 26.5 years of expected...
...York, a Supreme Court jury decided that the death of Hotel and Real Estate Magnate Arnold S. Kirkeby, 60, in an American Airlines jetliner crash had deprived his widow and daughter of $1,172,000 in anticipated earnings. Largest in New York negligence history, the Kirkeby award follows an Appellate Division decision that American was solely responsible for the disaster. Still to be heard: claims for as much as $10 million by relatives of at least nine other victims of the same March 1, 1962, crash...
...squad voted midfielder Bruce F. Caputo '65, of Adams House and Bronxville, N.Y., the Class of 1959 award, given to the senior "who, in the opinion of his teammates, has shown the most improvement, determination, and sportsmanship in the tradition of Harvard athletics...