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...successful Bronco season has catapulted Denver onto the national sports map. Professional team sports are a recent graft on the Rocky Mountain iden tity. The National Basketball Association Denver Nuggets, while a solid team, are known as the place where former North Carolina State Superstar David Thompson disappeared. A hockey franchise new to the town is struggling with expansion team woes, and a planned sale of the Oakland A's to Denver Oilman Marvin Davis awaits the outcome of Round 57 in the Charlie Finley-Bowie Kuhn brouhaha...
...after President Carter nominated him, the Alabama federal district judge was discovered to have an aneurysm, or abnormal swelling, of his abdominal aorta. After a 70-minute operation performed by Houston'. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, in which the weakened portion of the aorta was replaced by a Dacron graft, Johnson was reported to be in "excellent" condition. He is expected to recover completely in six weeks. If his return to health is delayed Johnson said he would ask Carter to "secure someone else for the directorship...
...vocal. One articulate testimonial to the surgeon's skill is Buck Buchwach, the Honolulu Advertiser's executive editor, whose case has drawn much attention to the advanced state of surgery in Hawaii. "Bucky" had had two heart attacks, the first at age 37, and a two-bypass graft at a famous U.S. mainland center. Results were unsatisfactory. Barely surviving a third attack a year ago, he was referred to Mamiya, who put in seven bypasses. At 56, Buchwach now works with "front page" drive and even feels good enough to play touch football with his youngsters...
...would seek to change the public perception that members of Congress devote less than full time to their jobs and pick up a lot of money from special interests in the form of generous speaking honorariums, lawyer's fees, gifts to secret office slush funds and occasionally outright graft and fraud...
...winding up its own probe. The commission has indicted former Premier Mariano Rumor, two former Defense Ministers and nine lesser figures for accepting $1.5 million in Lockheed cash. Now the 20-member board of inquiry faces ticklish legal and political problems. Under Italy's bribery statutes, prosecution of graft-takers is nearly impossible unless those who supplied the cash are also charged. Last week the board considered indicting former Lockheed President A. Carl Kotchian and at least half a dozen other Americans, but decided to postpone such action pending testimony by Rumor and his Italian associates...