Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There have been only 25 human-heart transplants, with seven patients surviving-too small a sample for many firm conclusions. But there was quick agreement at Cape Town that the best surgical technique is that devised by Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., in which part of the recipient's old heart is left in place to reduce the number of blood-vessel connections needed and to protect the heart's electrical system. There was also surprising unanimity on the desirability of getting transplant patients out of bed and walking within 48 hours after their...
...ghettos. Though most members of minorities like Reddin's ideas, many Negro militants still refuse to talk with the police. Some, like US (US is black people; whites would be THEM) Chief Ron Karenga, insist that Chief Parker's out-and-out hostility would be preferable to Reddin's firm amiability. The police, says Karenga, are still a neocolonial force in the ghetto. "They are not protecting us. They are controlling us." Karenga complains that the only function of Reddin's community councils is to release Negro frustrations through talk, without bringing effective action. Arthur Garcia, a Mexican-American spokesman...
Testifying to its conservative stance, new-boy ADD so far has made only one loan: $5,000,000 to Thailand for a fish-refrigeration plant. But several other firm loan applications are in the works. Ceylon will shortly sign for a loan to improve tea production, Taiwan wants $5,000,000 for a fishing fleet, and Indonesia would like $150 million to increase food production. Malaysia has applied to ADB for a loan to build oil-palm mills, and two weeks ago the bank signed a technical-assistance agreement with the Philippines under which ADB will send five experts...
...August or September, plans call for more sledding on firm ice until the long winter night sets in. They will camp again from October until March when the daily quota of sunlight is large enough for travel, having drifted near the North Pole during that North encampment. Then they will have to race against the spring surface melt and hopefully arrive at Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen Island in mid-June. There the H.M.S. Endurance will be on hand to return them to England
Though last week's hearings barely scratched the surface of Wall Street's rate structure, broker witnesses shed some light on how much give ups cost them. Van Vechten Burger, managing partner of Manhattan's Pershing & Co., testified that his firm routinely handles stock orders from mutual funds for only 25% of the fee set by the Big Board, passes on 75% to other exchange members. Last year, he said, Pershing thus surrendered some $6.9 million of its $9.7 million take from mutual-fund and other institutional trading. Michael J. Heaney, a floor partner at the American...