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Congress showed little enthusiasm in rushing to Garcia's defense. Though the President had declared "a total war against corruption" and picked incorruptible Dominador Aytona to clean up the Finance Department (TIME, June 20), he had briskly vetoed an anti-graft bill that made it a crime for the wife, or any other near relative of the President, Vice President or other top officials to "intervene directly or indirectly" in any transaction with the government. But Garcia controls Nacionalista Party purse strings, pressured Congress to set up a committee to investigate Osmeňa's accusations...
Last week the House, by overwhelming majority, decided that Osmeňa had "profaned the sanctity and degraded the dignity of the House," suspended him for 15 months. Delighted by his victory, Garcia used the occasion to push through a toothless anti-graft bill. But there were others who questioned Garcia's good intentions. Said loyal Nacionalista Arturo Modesto Tolentino: "When relatives of a President are able to construct mansions overnight after that President comes to power, can we prevent suspicion on the part of the people that such sudden opulence has been acquired through that President? The effect...
When Wolfe left Scribner in 1937, breaking with the man and the firm that had accompanied him to eminence, he said it was for ideological reasons: Perkins would not let him graft his passing romance with Marxism onto the surface of his novels. But Biographer Nowell insists on a different reason: Critic Bernard
...week reported a major advance toward one of their most cherished goals: the ability to replace diseased or worn-out human organs. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of doctors from Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital described the first successful attempt to graft a man with a kidney from somebody other than an identical twin. The patient is alive and healthy after 18 months-long enough to suggest that he has a chance of living a near-normal life. Led by Dr. John P. Merrill, the doctors succeeded by subjecting the patient...
...difficulty-and the reason doctors rarely try organ grafts on humans-is biochemical. One of nature's inexorable laws is that the mammalian body (like all animals' from amphibians up) will reject, attack and eventually destroy any invading material from another individualn.* In experiments with dogs, and in the few attempts on humans, this "rejection reaction" has invariably killed the graft. Only in the case of identical twins, who are in effect the same person biochemically, have grafts of skin or organs been completely successful. Since 1954 the Harvard-Brigham team has performed eleven successful kidney transplants between...