Word: graftings
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...there just doesn't seem to be anything to do in Philadelphia. The people there are concerned, of course, and continue to follow the Watergate hearings religiously. Searches for small-time Rizzos and Nixons have uncovered whole networks of graft, and the rascals have been mostly thrown out. But what can they do, they ask, when cops turn out to be criminals? No one is sure that the next mayor or president will not be one more disappointment...
...ironically, it was Nixon's attempted abuse of Attorney General Richardson that may have wounded the President most seriously. By his strong proclamation that justice must not be subverted in handling Agnew's graft and contract kickbacks, Richardson had only the week before enhanced his already considerable reputation for rectitude and propriety. The Agnew stand undoubtedly was taken at Nixon's behest. Now, by resigning rather than bowing to Nixon's bludgeon tactics against Cox, Richardson may have dealt the President a mortal political blow...
...Guru Maharaj Ji has learned to specialize in just this sort of improbability and overstatement: the shameless graft of a veneer of Eastern spiritualism on to Western pop culture. The band, which will release its first album "Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji?" next month, does songs with refrains like "Take me home with you, Guru Maharaj Ji." The Guru's Indian Mahatmas, equivalent to disciples, stud their sermons with words like "far out" and "A.O.K." At the concert Wednesday, the Guru's most prestigious American convert, former radical leader Rennie Davis, put forth a message which he called "almost unthinkable...
...fall was personally sad, and graft -obviously and unfortunately-is by no means rare in American politics. But rare indeed was the betrayal of the public trust by one who had so harshly judged others-a betrayal carried, moreover, into the very precincts of the White House, according to the evidence presented against Agnew, with cash deliveries in the Vice President's Executive Office. All this made sympathy for Agnew a little difficult. Holding out for a Government pledge of no prison term was, in addition, hardly a selfless act. If his nation's interest had been Agnew...
...Methodist Hospital. Operating on a 42-year-old truck driver named Heriberto Hernandez, Garrett had expected to ream out a short stretch of clogged coronary artery and stitch over it a split piece of vein removed from the patient's own leg-what surgeons call a patch graft. Two main arteries proved to be so diseased that this procedure was not feasible. Garrett, who is now at the University of Tennessee's Medical Unit in Memphis, boldly decided to use a longer piece of vein, also from Hernandez's leg. He ran it from healthy tissue...