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...baboon-heart transplant inspires both awe and anger...
...week, as television viewers got their first glimpse of the newborn known only as Baby Fae, it was her visibly heaving chest that stole the show. There was no mistaking the pulsations of life and no forgetting that the power source was the freshly implanted heart of a young baboon...
...there was wonder and excitement over this latest medical marvel, but the enthusiasm was dampened somewhat by controversy. Antivivisectionists around the country and abroad protested what they called "ghoulish tinkering" with human and animal life. "This is medical sensationalism at the expense of Baby Fae, her family and the baboon," charged Lucy Shelton of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The group was one of several that demonstrated outside the Loma Linda hospital last week. (Read "Baby Fae Loses Her Battle...
Friday. A salutary touch of malice gloriously unjust. She describes a visit to Novelist Elizabeth Bowen in Ireland, where other guests included Critic Cyril Connolly and wife: "There we spent one night, unfortunately with baboon Connolly & his gollywog slug wife Jean...
Jefferson has undergone even wider swings in the historical standings, perhaps the greatest for any President. He had savage critics while he was in office; "Mad Tom" was one of their epithets for him. (Washington was called "a tyrant" and Lincoln "a baboon." Lyndon Johnson, touchingly, took comfort in those contemporary misjudgments.) The conservative Northeast historians of the 19th century held essentially to the Hamiltonian belief in a strong central government and saw Jefferson as the exponent of weak government and of an excessive trust in the people. Jefferson did not fare much better with progressives, who loved the people...