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There had been two previous transplants of a human heart with both lungs attached, all in the U.S., and none of the recipients lived more than a few days. But last week, in Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed this feat of surgical bravura. The man who first transplanted a human heart has lost none of his daring or his ability to provoke controversy...
...Adrian Herbert, 49, a dental technician. Emphysema had so ravaged his lungs that they scarcely functioned. This condition had overloaded the heart, and it, too, was badly damaged. Herbert could not have lived more than a day or two away from intensive hospital care. Even with that care, says Barnard, Herbert was a "semivegetable." Radical surgery, therefore, seemed justified. Relatives gave their consent; Barnard alerted his team of 14 and awaited the arrival of a donor...
...that ominous beginning, I worked with a bunch of pretty healthy young Canadian kids, went to California, and returned, my feelings about man-kind altogether revived. Within one week of my arrival back in Cambridge, I went innocently to take a midnight bath in the third floor bathroom of Barnard Hall. There before me I found an absolutely unknown naked man masturbating in the tub. Go ahead and laugh, if you like. Of course there's something a bit comical about the scenario, shades of Portnoy or of Bruce Jay Friedman. Even more comical to remember that some girl...
PERHAPS the encounter with the naked masturbator reveals more than the obvious elements of black humor. Certainly, it was a little frightening; officially so frightening, in fact, that the cops had to be called in, a fire drill held and all of Barnard Hall evacuated at 2 a.m. so that every last room could be checked to make sure the poor naked dude wasn't lurking behind some bookcase. It was, also, unquestionably, a bit pathetic. Any man who has to get his kicks by displaying himself in front of a bunch of weary, bleary-eyed Radcliffe girls must first...
...Ursula Niebuhr later became head of Barnard College's religion department. The Niebuhr teaching dynasty also included his late brother, eminent Yale Ethicist H. Richard; his late sister, Hulda, who taught education at McCormick Seminary; and his nephew, Harvard Theologian Richard Reinhold Niebuhr...