Word: caped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with transplanted hearts followed opposite courses last week. For Philip Blaiberg, 58, in Cape Town, the course was smooth. But at Stanford Medical Center, Mike Kasperak, 54, went from crisis to fatal crisis...
...Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, Blaiberg spent much of each day sitting up in a chair, and walked several laps around his room. At week's end, he surpassed Louis Washkansky's record of surviving for 18 days with a transplanted heart...
Nothing daunted, she hopped aboard the plane for Paris. But it was not so easy. First, she discovered, there was no central purchasing agency. "Each policeman had bought his own cape," she says. And when she approached them directly in her faltering French, most Paris flics simply laughed in her face. "I felt foolish, so I flew right home," confesses Mrs. Barry. But once there, she was met with a barrage of accusations. "Everyone-my husband and my friends-accused me of giving up," she says. And so back she flew to Paris, determined to lick the problem...
First off, she took to the streets, distributing cards printed with her name and hotel address to every policeman she saw. She also made a tour of precinct stations, explaining to all who would listen that she would pay $10 to $15 for each cape delivered to her hotel. When she caught wind of an anti-American rally outside the U.S. embassy, she sensed a windfall. She raced to the scene, handed out her cards-and by evening some 50 flics had marched into the hotel, capes in hand. The concierge collaborated willingly. "Whenever I was out and another batch...
Died. Dr. Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, 69, longtime South African statesman; after a series of strokes; in Cape Town. As Minister of Interior from 1948 to 1958, Donges pushed through South Africa's Parliament the harsh dogmas of apartheid-absolute racial partition, mandatory identification papers for all blacks, no mixed marriages, and no voting rights for persons of mixed blood-then, as Finance Minister from 1958 to 1966, bent himself to the more creditable task of successfully building a vigorous, stable economy for his gold-rich country. His real ambition was to be Prime Minister, but he finally...