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...plasma for transfusion. It was no easy promise to fulfill. Fred got progressively sicker. The blood bank drained its supplies, sometimes at the rate of 22 pints a day. "As we began to use up our reserves," says Dr. Hill, "we had to turn to other sources. We bor rowed blood, we bought it, finally we made a public plea for donors." Volunteers turned up by the score. Prison inmates from Texas and Oklahoma bled freely for the sick boy. So did G.I.'s from nearby military camps. Home in Muskogee, the high school student council raised...
Borges (pronounced Bor-hess) has been neglected because he has long been considered too complex to survive translation...
...that Hoffa will eventually be repudiated by his own members." Goldberg insists that unions must accept automation as a fact of life, but he also insists that management must help retrain workers who have been displaced by automation so that they can become useful members of the new la bor force...
...seats clutching rifles between their knees. Their bodyguards wore pistols in heavy holsters that sagged down to their knees, and the bullets in the bandoleers had been filed arrow-sharp. Almost all of Kuwait's tiny, 1,600-man army of tough Bedouins roared up to the northern bor der with Iraq in British-built armored cars, thoroughly alarmed at reports that Iraq was massing tanks just across the border. Only six days after Kuwait declared itself an independent nation and no longer a protectorate of Great Britain, Iraq had announced it was annexing its oil-rich neighbor...
Ever since the Syrians made their arms deal with Russia, Turkey has been nervously watching its southern frontier, has sent troops estimated to equal an army corps to "maneuver" near the Syrian bor der. Last week patrols exchanged shots for 45 minutes across the frontier. At week's end, to add to the tension, Egypt announced that "basic elements" of its air, sea and naval forces had arrived at the port of Latakia to bolster Syrian defenses...