Word: exception
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...they opened his chest and made the necessary connections to a heart-lung machine to supply oxygenated blood to his body (except the heart) and brain. Then they removed his heart. In its place, Dr. Barnard installed Haupt's heart, using essentially the same technique as in Washkansky's case (TIME, Dec. 15). There was, however, a different atmosphere. The 30-man team of surgeons, physicians and nurses were less tense. As Barnard put it: "We are not going into the unknown-we are going where we have been before." Another difference was encouraging. The transplanted heart began...
...Except for the 65,663-student, tuition-free City University of New York (seven senior colleges), which draws half of its operating and building funds from the state and administers six of the state's junior colleges...
Tents & Churchlets. Some theologians believe that cathedrals, and all large churches, are obsolete, at least as far as the city is concerned. San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral, with a capacity of 2,392, averages only 500 to 600 worshipers on a typical Sunday; except at services celebrating Christmas and Easter, St. John the Divine is rarely filled...
...reduction in corporate investment overseas, which reached $5 billion last year. Under an obscure provision of the 1917 Banking Act, he decreed the first mandatory controls in U.S. history on such outlays, replacing the half-effective "voluntary" restraints in force since 1965. In South Africa and continental Western Europe (except for Greece and Finland), new investments of money from the U.S. were barred completely. Companies may finance new projects from foreign earnings and depreciation allowances, but only up to a ceiling of 35% of the average level of such expenditures in 1965 and 1966. In Latin America, Africa and Asia...
...farfetched to say that Harvard has better material than any Eastern team except Cornell. But psychologically the Crimson players rank near the bottom. Since they choked in their big game with Cornell three weeks ago, their confidence has been shot and their bright prospects have dimmed drastically...