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...disease. The operation at Houston's Methodist Hospital was not, as racing-pulse press reports first proclaimed, "history's first implant of an artificial heart," but it incorporated famed Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey's latest refinements of a device on which he and his colleagues at Baylor and Rice universities have worked for eight years. And it gave a doomed patient renewed hope of life...
...Sukey Johnson, whose date and place of birth are apparently unrecorded. Dozens of family photographs portray L.B.J.'s sturdy forebears, from Father Sam, looking astonishingly like L.B.J. on a bad day, to Maternal Great-Grandfather George Washington Baines Sr., a fire-breathing Baptist preacher who was president of Baylor University and the deadliest shot in the county. His favorite hymn, Rebekah attests, was Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed...
...broadest possible river," he says, "and I felt that journalism and public affairs were wider and faster flowing than the ministry." When he graduated, despite his conviction that the ministry was too much "a world of words and not of action," he accepted a lectureship in Christian ethics at Baylor. Then, Lyndon Johnson asked him to rejoin his staff. Moyers accepted with alacrity...
Three Realities. At week's end, President Johnson went to Waco, Texas, to speak to the graduating class of Baylor University. Like Rusk, he recounted the events leading to U.S. intervention. "Blood and hate drowned ideals, and for days freedom itself stood on the edge of disaster," he said. "In those early, terrible hours, we did what...
...particular gear. A man who never walks if he can drive, he gets his exercise by refusing to wait for elevators. He lopes up and down stairs and covers the hospital's labyrinthine corridors at a brisk pace. Professor DeBakey has a handsome, spacious, blue-carpeted office in Baylor's College of Medicine, and rarely uses it. In Methodist Hospital, Surgeon DeBakey has a tiny office, as cluttered as his den, and runs it like an Army command post...