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Many a surgeon dreams of the day when, like the mechanic faced with a worn-out fuel pump, he will be able to dip into a bank of human spare parts and fix up his patient with a replacement for.an ailing organ−even one so vital to life as a kidney or the heart itself. So far, apart from the difficulty of obtaining such spare organs, two obstacles have seemed insuperable: 1) the surgical difficulties of making all the necessary blood-vessel connections in time, and 2) the immune reaction which causes a recipient to manufacture antibodies that destroy...
...TROUBLE between cash-heavy Germany and cash-shy Britain is growing worse. For September, West German reserves of gold and foreign exchange will show jump of about $600 million to $5.9 billion, more than 25% ahead of last year's total. Sterling area's reserves will show dip of $282 million to $1.85 billion, lowest since...
...bitchery"). They hated each other for their infidelities: "It seems extraordinary to me now that we did not kill each other outright; we certainly got dangerously near to it." But it was only with Dylan dead and buried in his Welsh village of Laugharne ("this Godforsaken, Dylan-shared, vanishing dip in the hills") that Caitlin was possessed by the enormity of her loss, and wanted "to ferret down to that long locked cold box, and burst it apart . . . to mangle him with my strong bones, mingle, mutilate the two of us together, till the dead and the living would...
...much investment capital away from the soft British pound and the French franc, captured many overseas customers that other European nations would like to have. Great Britain is in the forefront in demanding German revaluation. Britain's gold and dollar reserves dropped $225 million in August. the biggest dip since the Suez crisis, and its deficit with the European payments union reached $178 million (compared with West Germany's fat surplus of $280 million). The rush to turn pounds into marks has been so great that Britain had to spend scarce dollars to support the pound to keep...
...week the argument was bubbling at a fast boil. In a lengthy study, the American Institute of Management took aim at the board of Bethlehem Steel Corp., all inside directors, reported that the 15 members voted themselves nearly $5,500,000 in bonuses last year despite a $19 million dip in Bethlehem's profits. Said A.I.M., arguing that such bonuses might be better spent elsewhere: in too many cases of inside boards, "small stockowners who constitute the majority of investors have little recourse except to follow the rough old rule: 'If you don't like what...