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...Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. "One, that I do have a heart; second, that it is in need of repair." Kissinger's longtime friend and personal physician, W. Gerald Austen, chief of surgery at Massachusetts General, explained that the operation was to be a triple coronary bypass, in which a major vein from the patient's leg would be used to make detours around the clogged arteries leading to his heart. Kissinger handled the risks diplomatically: he quipped that he was negotiating for "a quadruple bypass-one more than Haig." (Secretary of State Alexander Haig had triple...
Buzzwords were back in action at the city council meeting last week. But Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 couldn't fool anyone with his substitution of "adjustment" for over-ride or bypass. The council is currently contemplating a popular referendum that would allow the city relief from continued budget reductions due to Proposition 2 1/2, and the councilors are understandably concerned that voters may be reluctant to throw away future tax cuts. Apparently Duehay feels an "adjustment" will be easier for the voters to approve than an "over-ride." Thursday night, however, his linguistic gymnastics prompted loud chuckles from most...
...difficulties hindered the four-and-a-half hour operation in which doctors performed a coronary triple bypass. Doctors afterwards compared the danger involved in Kissinger's operation to that involved in a gallbladder operation. The only other operation Kissinger had undergone was an appendectomy 25 years...
...Takuye Green, 54, was facing a coronary bypass operation at Lutheran Hospital of Milwaukee. Her husband Hoyle remembers being reassured when they were told that a top visiting Air Force officer, Dr. William Stanford, would be assisting. Stanford was responsible for hooking her up to a heart-lung machine; somehow the connection was made backward. For 15 minutes no one noticed, and instead of pumping oxygenated blood into Green, the machine drained blood out of her aorta. The resulting brain damage has left her a speechless quadriplegic living on liquid protein. (And she could live that way for 20 years...
Such a gradual transition just might placate white fears, while educating Blacks to run the country along with the whites. It would not jettison firm ties with the West; it would bypass the polarization and strife that come with revolution...