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...other vacationers the trip would have been routine. But when Josephine Berman, 43, and her husband toured the Grand Canyon, stopped at Las Vegas and then visited San Francisco last summer, it was something of a medical miracle. For eleven years the pretty Brook lyn housewife has suffered from chronic kidney disease. Like 24,000 other similarly afflicted Americans, she could never go far from the massive dialysis machines that purge her blood of the toxic wastes her kidneys are no longer able to remove. Yet during her 16-day trip, she shunned kidney centers entirely. Her unexpected freedom...
Safe and Efficient. Half a year after they started, Friedman and Hutchisson had their answer. Tests on both animal and human blood indicated that the new machine was not only safe but efficient at cleansing the blood. After only four weeks of instruction, the plucky Mrs. Berman, who is president of the nonprofit National Association of Patients on Hemodialysis and Transplantation Inc. (N.A.P.H.T.), headed West with her 24-lb. suitcase kidney and 15 Ibs. of accessories (including container and dialyzing mix). The machine worked without a hitch. She dialyzed five times-in motel rooms and even on a friend...
...city's ethnic-oriented, working class neighborhoods is especially regrettable, since one of the principal motivations of the whole Convention effort was to begin to move away from the bitter, regressive class cleavages which have poisoned Cambridge politics for over a generation. The surprising victories of Sara Mae Berman and David Clem, two liberal candidates from neighborhoods east of Harvard Square, indicate a partial success here. The overwhelming broad-based neighborhood support for Frank Duehay and the courageous candidacy of Steve Buckley, a member of a longtime name appeared on none of the "liberal" slates that year, and the clear...
...fallen liberals, Charles Pierce and Peter G. Gesell, will be replaced by Independent David A. Fantini, a former committeeman and the second strongest winner in this year's contest, and Sara Mae Berman, the liberal candidate who drew attention to her campaign by literally running through city neighborhoods with leaflets and supporters at her tail...
Fantini's and Berman's election bring the balance of reform and moderate members to 3-3. Veteran observers of the city political scene have commented that the campaign, loaded down with popular candidates but bereft of issues or significant debate, offered few surprises...