Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasing frequency, the need has become even more urgent. Aware of the shortage of transplant organs, legislators across the nation are acting with unaccustomed speed to make it easier to donate organs after death. Last year Massachusetts changed the law that stood in the way of Grace Metalious' gift. At least 35 states from Maine to Hawaii have introduced legislation based on a model law, the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Last week, the Governor of Vermont signed a bill closely resembling the Uniform Act, which was drafted last year by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws...
...sold-or willed. While some states permitted such donations, others gave greater weight to the wishes of a dead man's relatives. As in the Metalious case, the next of kin, who have a recognized authority to provide a decent burial, could often manage to have the gift of a body revoked...
...Uniform Act establishes the right of any person of sound mind, 18 or over, to donate his body-effectively preventing relatives from vetoing the gift after death. Moreover, the legislation should make possible the rapid legal decisions that are necessary for organ transplants. For one thing, it allows a man to donate his body through any "written instrument," not necessarily a will, thus providing a way around the delay of probate. The law also permits survivors to donate a man's organs; to avoid time-consuming quarrels, it lists relatives in an order that determines whose wishes will prevail...
...penthouse whose walls are completely covered with dark green Vermont marble-giving their apartment a curiously tomblike atmosphere. Capote's apartment features a red-on-red dining room ("Like a hot raspberry tart," he says), and a prominently displayed pink china jar labeled "Opium," which was a housewarming gift from Jacqueline Kennedy...
...Perhaps the money given generously to charity (and providing a tax deduction) was used to set up a scholarship program for needy college students, or perhaps the gift went to fight cancer or heart disease...