Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where once they had only to pass a plate among Sunday attenders, churches nowadays raise money in ways that range from bingo to bonds. Fund raising brings up questions of taste, discretion, prudence and donor psychology that stir heated debates across the land. TIME correspondents, sampling opinion among churchgoers and ministers last week, found that the "crasser" gimmicks of fund raising are giving way, but only slowly, to various forms of direct donation...
Kill a Patient? The doctors thought that in their small hospital they were likely to have many more suitable recipients than donors. But they were wrong. Three men were admitted to the medical center in Jackson with incurable brain injuries-one from a fall, one from a tumor, and one from a suicidal gunshot wound. Each of the doomed men was kept alive for a while by artificial breathing apparatus, and any one of them might have been a suitable donor if there had been an equally suitable recipient handy. But even if they had had a dying heart patient...
Turn to the Chimp. Eventually, the surgeons and physicians decided that unless they were willing to take the question of life or death in their own hands and shut off the artificial breathing of a potential donor, it was "exceedingly unlikely" that such a man would die at just the right time, while a waiting heart patient was being kept alive on the heart-lung machine...
...later typically complaining that U.S. officials had acted on his request too hastily. He recalled his ambassador to Washington, renewed old charges that the CIA was behind a clandestine radio operated by his domestic opposition. He was also still convinced that when he received a "present" from an unknown donor in 1959 and the box turned out to contain a bomb, the CIA was to blame...
...Last week Ecuadorian Sailor Julio Luna, whose grenade-smashed right hand had been replaced by a transplant from a recently dead donor (TIME, March 6), was flown to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. There doctors concluded, "The natural rejection mechanism of the patient had progressed to the point that prolongation of the transplant would jeopardize the health of the patient's whole arm," reluctantly amputated Luna's new hand...