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Liberal rank-and-file Democrats in the House of Representatives had long been seething at the independence and aloofness of some of the chamber's committee chairmen. So too had House Speaker Carl Albert and Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill. With the election of 75 new Democratic Congressmen in November, the pressures for change mounted. But when they finally burst the restraints of tradition last week, the results were astonishing. For the House, that glacially sluggish institution, it amounted to a revolution...
...been announcing the arrival of the President to address joint sessions of Congress throughout most of the past 24 years. Members felt that he had been neglecting them, giving too many gallery passes to his friends instead of theirs, and replaced him with James T. Molloy, the chamber's popular disbursing clerk...
They toppled one of the chamber's titans. After serving for four years as a judge in Arkansas' White County, Mills won a seat in Congress in 1938. He was re-elected in 17 subsequent contests, with token Democratic opposition in only three races and with no Republican opponent until this year...
...fibrous tissue." Barnard cut away 45% of this diseased heart muscle, partly to make room for the implant. He placed the donor heart piggyback on Taylor's own, left side to left side, and cut silver-dollar-size holes in the left atrium (upper chamber) of each. Then he stitched the two hearts together and shunted the aorta from the donor heart into Taylor's aorta...
...naturally into the patient's left atrium, and some from there to his repaired left ventricle for. pumping to the rest of his body. Some would also flow into the donor heart's left atrium and its left ventricle, where the child's young, muscular pumping chamber would give the patient's heart a boost. No artificial pacemakers were used, so the two hearts kept beating at their own rates; the child donor's, without connections to the nervous system, pulsed faster than the patient's own. "We're working on developing...