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AILING. Frank M. Johnson Jr., 58, director designate of the FBI. The day after President Carter nominated him, the Alabama federal district judge was discovered to have an aneurysm, or abnormal swelling, of his abdominal aorta. After a 70-minute operation performed by Houston'. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, in which the weakened portion of the aorta was replaced by a Dacron graft, Johnson was reported to be in "excellent" condition. He is expected to recover completely in six weeks. If his return to health is delayed Johnson said he would ask Carter to "secure someone else for the directorship...
BORN. To Michael DeBakey, 68, pioneer heart surgeon and president of the Baylor University College of Medicine, and Katrin DeBakey, 35, former actress from Hamburg, Germany; their first child, a girl; in Houston. Name: Olga-Katarina...
...Honored for clinical research were Pharmacologists Raymond P. Ahlquist of the Medical College of Georgia and Dr. J.W. Black of University College of London. Their work led to the development of the drug propranolol (Inderal), which the Lasker jurors, headed by Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey, hailed as one of the most important drugs of the century for its role in the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease, the nation's No. 1 killer...
Despite the near disaster, Michael DeBakey (son of the heart surgeon and an I.E.S. director) feels that the point has been made. "We set out to prove that the Nazcas had the skill, the materials and the need for flight," he says. "I think we have succeeded...
Like any immigrant group, Arab Americans have found their way in a variety of occupations-as peddlers, small shopkeepers, cooks, restaurant owners, then lawyers, doctors, engineers. Now they point proudly to such men as Ralph Nader, Comedian Danny Thomas, Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey and former Pan Am President Najeeb Halaby, who are all descended from Lebanese or Syrian forebears. One great hero is South Dakota's James Abourezk, a Lebanese American who is the first person of Arab extraction to make it to the U.S. Senate...