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...kidney has been favored up to now, because one kidney is enough for anyone, and everyone with a healthy pair is a potential donor. Even so, the kidney may not prove to be the easiest or the most wanted transplant. The pancreas, source of insulin, would be a boon to a diabetic. Dr. Moore is already making experimental transplants of whole livers between dogs. In Denver, two months ago. Colorado General Hospital and Veterans Administration Hospital surgeons attempted the first human liver transplant, from a girl of ten. who died of a brain tumor, to a boy of three...
Died. Lyman James Briggs, 88, director of the National Bureau of Standards from 1933 until his retirement in 1945, a physicist of scope and versatility who devised the earth inductor compass, a navigation boon that Charles Lindbergh used on his transatlantic flight, developed the centrifuge method for classifying soils by moisture content, and helped lead the U.S. into nuclear physics as chairman of the Uranium Committee (forerunner of the Manhattan Project); of a heart attack; in Washington...
Irritating Switch. Toyo Kogyo was only a small machine shop when Owner Jujiro Matsuda, inspired by the sight of delivery boys' three-wheeled bikes, decided in the early 1930s to make a three-wheeled truck. His inexpensive Mazda truck was a boon to small businessmen who had neither the money nor the volume to afford bigger, four-wheeled trucks. Toyo Kogyo switched to making rifles and airplane parts in World War II, escaped serious damage from Hiroshima's Abomb, which fell only three miles from its plant, because of freakish blast waves. The firm was too small...
...omnicompetent computer, whose attention often seems to be concentrated on the welfare of moon travelers and submariners, may at last have produced a palpable boon for the common run of mankind: a system for winning money in a gambling house...
...strike was a minor boon. U.S. steelmakers got rush orders for rolled sheet steel from Stateside customers they had previously lost to foreign competitors. But the overall damage to the economy was so great that President Kennedy warned that "the point of public toleration of this situation has been passed...