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Thurmond left the Governor's mansion in 1951 and opened a private law practice in Aiken, S.C. In 1954 he staged a write-in campaign for the Senate seat of Burnet Maybank, who had died between the primary and general elections. Thurmond defeated a candidate who had been handpicked by the state's presiding Democratic leaders and went to Washington. There, he distinguished himself mostly for his windiness: in 1957, during a one-man filibuster against pending civil rights legislation, Thurmond kept talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes, stoked himself through the night with pumpernickel, hamburger meat...
...Orton's ingenious exegesis seriously, but it points up the serious theological issues raised by the possibility of life on other planets. Christianity has existed through the centuries on the assumption that man is the pinnacle of God's creation. What happens, asks Presbyterian Theology Professor W. Burnet Easton Jr., if it turns out that man is the pinnacle of only one of God's many worlds? Even so. writes Easton in Theology Today, all creation is under God's care. "He 'clothes the lilies of the field.' and not a sparrow 'will...
...major management realignment, Thompson's grand old man, Stanley Burnet Resor, 81, who spent 44 of his 53 years with the agency as president and chief executive officer, was finally retired as board chairman. By virtue of a decision to leave the chairman's spot vacant, the vice-chairmanships of two of Resor's top hands were also eliminated: Samuel Meek, 66, who has run Thompson's international operation for 36 years, and Henry C. Flower Jr., 64, a 33-year Thompson veteran. Both Flower and Meek will continue with the agency as directors and members...
...Step Closer. Using the work of Medawar and others as a starting point, Australia's Burnet theorized that the rejection reaction is not inherited full-blown, instead is developed gradually in the fetus and young child. Burnet speculated that if, during the period of immunological development, the human body could be taught to tolerate grafts from selected donors, it would later be able to accept tissue transplants from those same donors. Seizing on Burnet's thesis. Dr. Medawar proceeded to confirm it in a series of laboratory tests. He inoculated mouse embryos in the womb with tissue from...
...Burnet-Medawar discovery, hailed in the Nobel citation as "a new chapter in experimental biology," has no direct medical use. But it represents a long step closer to the day dreamed of by many doctors when surgeons will be able to shift hearts, lungs, kidneys and even limbs from one body to another...