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...Parliament, imposed censorship, and began to rule through a 17-man Revolutionary Council of army officers. Leaving nothing to chance, Ne Win named himself leader of the council, President of Burma, Minister for Defense, Finance and Revenue, and chief of the military tribunals that have replaced Burma's graft-ridden judiciary. Devout Buddhist U Nu is still under house arrest and passes the time in meditation and, presumably, in pursuit of his special obsession-astrology...
Living Memorial. One of the six corneas had been damaged in the accident and was unsuitable for grafting, but it went to an eye research laboratory. All five others were grafted that same day, at Pittsburgh's Eye and Ear, and Montefiore hospitals. One went to a nun, 30, herself a hospital aide. One to a water pollution expert, 42, whose eye had been blinded by lye. Two were donated to needy housewives. Another to a man of 52 whose own cornea had become overgrown with scar tissue after an injury. All of the operations were what ophthalmic surgeons...
Against a half-century of socialist dialectics, the profit motive still survives in Russia, in both honest and dishonest forms. Hardly a week goes by without another case of graft or "left-handed production" - the Russian nickname for clandestine manufacturing. Judging by three new scandals last week, the problem is getting worse...
...went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become unmanageable, and the Brigham doctors concluded that only a transplant could save her life. Sister Wanda was willing, and graft tests showed that the twins were indeed identical...
...doctors relaxed when the kidney graft took. But they became understandably tense in January of 1958, when Edith Helm arrived from Sand Springs, Okla., about seven months pregnant. On March 10 she had a normal baby boy by caesarean. Little more than two years later she had a girl, also by caesarean, in Gushing, Okla. Meanwhile, Sister Wanda had had three normal pregnancies and deliveries...