Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of a rather special elite. Eleven of the 16 surgeons who have performed heart transplants gathered last week in Cape Town to consider what they had done, what they should do, and how they could do better. Why Cape Town? Explained Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz: "Chris Barnard has been doing it better than all of us-that's why we are here." Barnard's aura was rivaled by the authority of Houston's Dr. Denton Cooley, who has three surviving patients, including one who is going back to work...
PEGGY BOMBA Brooklyn...
...Negro officers in the past few years, but most of them have not had much success (Exceptions: Washington, 21% of the force; Philadelphia, 20%; Chicago, 17%). Negro policemen are often looked on as Judases when they put on the blue uniform. "More than anything," laments a black patrolman in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, "I want my people to like me. But they just don't like cops. This suit makes me an enemy to them just like any other...
...baseball's best-known men in blue during 19 years as a National League umpire; in Dallas. A burly, rubber-faced Texan, Boggess was the target of one of the game's more notable rhubarbs-on July 4, 1945, when he thumbed out the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo Durocher, bringing down such a rain of missiles that cops had to hustle him from the field. His peers, however, rated him high enough to ump five All-Star games and four World Series...
...engaging girl from Brooklyn put it, "I expected guys who would be socially older, experienced individuals. But the buoys are so awkwud here." This girl felt disgusted because the other day some guy tossed a paper plane past her nose, with a request for a date written on it. And in the Yard, other boys have sent friends over to her, to mediate for them...