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South Africa's adventurous surgeon Christiaan Barnard startled the scientific world late last year by announcing that he had not only given a patient a new heart but had left most of the old one, still beating, in place (TIME, Dec. 9). Although the world's first twin-heart patient, an engineer named Ivan Taylor, died early in April, Barnard is still satisfied that his surgical spectacular was a success. The death, he explained last week, was not directly related to the operation. Taylor died not because his body rejected the new heart but as a result...
...president of India. The somewhat modest U.S. delegation was headed by Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen and Senator Charles Percy of Illinois. Most prominent among the women guests was Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, whose retinue of 40 included Mrs. Henry Ford II and Dr. and Mrs. Christiaan Barnard. They had been visiting the Marcoses in Manila and decided to come along for the party. Also on hand were a colorful assortment of maharajahs who, having lost their titles and privy purses in India, welcome the coronation of a Nepalese relative as a rare opportunity to display a little...
Lethal Success. Such desires, explains Jong, "were a fantasy of my 20s." Now 32, she has outgrown them. "The beautiful men on the street are probably very boring to talk to." Jong grew up in a Jewish household in Manhattan, attended Barnard College and earned a master's degree in English literature from Columbia. Both Jong and Isadora are poets; both had brief marriages to fellow students, then married American-born Chinese psychiatrists. Most of the novel, says Jong, is "an interweaving of fiction with reality...
...Delft knows his pitch well and delivers it smoothly, just as he has before at Columbia, Barnard, Princeton, MIT, Harvard Medical School and all the other places he has been since he and District 65 several years ago got the idea of organizing clerical workers in universities. Every organizing meeting is different, of course--the secretaries here are older than their Cambridge counterparts, have been working for Harvard longer and are more suspicious about the idea of joining a union. When Schroder says, in her mild German accent, that District 65 is "the first union that has really looked...
Until the Washington Post ran a routine story recently on the marriage of Post Watergate Sleuth Bob Woodward to Fort Worth Star-Telegram Reporter Francine Barnard, the magic names of Woodward and Partner Carl Bernstein had been suspiciously absent from the paper. Their familiar double byline has not appeared in the Post since September, and they have been missing from the talk-show circuit...