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...this, the team at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center, headed by Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, admitted "unequivocal failure." Their patient, a 19-day-old boy, died 6½ hours after he received a new heart. But the team of Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, 44, which acted first at Cape Town, South Africa, had a more enduring success. Their patient, a 55-year-old man, was feeding himself and making small talk a week after his epochal surgery. At this time, as expected, there appeared the first signs of a tendency by his body to reject the transplant, but the doctors...
...Oceanside is what Harvard Square would be if city planners took teen-agers to heart and let traffic control go hang. Conceive a commodious space, roofed with wood, full of metal picnic tables. The air is rotting vegetable incense, the food, all of it, has the consistency of a day-old french...
...biggest laugh of the week came when 1 read that "Americans spend only 8% of their after-tax income for food" Nov. 4]. I spend 29%, and this is done only by buying day-old bread, not eat-ng any of the better cuts of meat, and 5uying only the "come-on" items at the market. No meat over 89? per pound has graced our table since the price increases 'his year. We use powdered milk for cooking and all the short cuts that...
Traditionally, the first novelist bursts upon the literary scene like a day-old volcano-exploding platitudes, scattering an unbreathable ash of adjectives, devouring cash advances like sacrificial maidens. The noisy thing may turn out to be a mountain or a molehill, but on the chance of producing a verbal Vesuvius most publishers annually sponsor a series of these fictional eruptions, timing them to coincide with the great silence that descends on the book business between July 4 and Labor Day...
American is the largest airline not affected by the 25-day-old strike of the International Association of Machinists which has paralyzed 60 per cent of the nation's air traffic...