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...move proved sound. After ruling out food and person-to-person transmission of the infection, the CDC men learned that all of the patients had received platelets-blood components that help promote clotting-from the same donor. Following up that clue, they found that the man unknowingly had chronic, asymptomatic osteomyelitis, an infection of the bone that was the cause of the cancer patients' new illness. The CDC'S discovery helped the cancer victims and may have saved others as well. The man revealed that he had sold 57 pints of blood during a seven-month period...
Smithsonian has never had Government support; it was launched on a $50,000 contribution from an anonymous donor. With this modest nest egg, and the Institution's credit as backing, Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley hired Edward K. Thompson, managing editor of LIFE from 1949 to 1961, to head the new venture...
...aspects, the situation was not unique. Another recent heart donor at Stanford had been shot. Andrew Lyons, the alleged murderer, claimed in his pretrial defense that the surgeons caused the death. The judge in that case rejected the argument on the theory that the heart would never have been removed if the man had not first been fatally shot in the head. Regardless of the opposing rulings, Stanford Heart Surgeon Norman Shumway is worried that both cases will discourage the use of assault victims as organ donors. The Flores case, however, will be appealed, leaving it to a higher California...
...been given over the years because the total has never been officially tabulated, but by one reckoning the Department of the Treasury has collected more than $43 million dollars since 1862. That does not include gifts given directly to other departments, nor does it include gifts designated by the donor to reduce the national debt, to aid the national defense, or to support Washington's Kennedy Center. In fiscal 1973, conscience-fund contributions alone came to $52,000, though the amount varies widely from year to year. In fiscal...
...potentially one of the most explosive scandals in Washington, but White House lawyers refused to provide information about it on the ground that Cox had no claim to evidence bearing on any campaign except that of 1972. (To invalidate that contention, Cox three weeks ago charged a Democratic donor to Hubert Humphrey's 1968 campaign with making an illegal contribution...