Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Arthur Costa e Silva, 65, the army general who has been in office for nine months, did not quite know what to say. A staunch and faithful Catholic, he has visited Pope Paul twice in the past three years. To help arrange a truce, Costa asked to meet with the church's leading bishops some time next month. He realizes all too well that it was the wrath of the Catholic Church that helped topple Argen tine Dictator Juan Peron...
...Daily Sun ruined a freshman geology course known as "Rocks for Jocks," which is now unusually tough; but Mathematician Leonard Silver, who marks exams in a linear algebra course vaguely as either "swell" or "lousy," still gives nothing but A's. "I'm trying to help the student avoid ulcers," he explains...
...public attitudes. Surgeons who did not want to take the risks attendant upon being first will now attempt transplants. More medically suitable recipients will be willing to accept a transplant with its inevitable hazards. And more people will be willing to sanction the gift of a heart to help an ailing fellow...
...Barnard. The doctors agreed: Denise could not survive. Barnard took Darvall aside and explained what he wanted-the gift of a heart, unprecedented in history. Edward Darvall listened numbly as Barnard told him: "We have done our best, and there is nothing more that can be done to help your daughter. There is no hope for her. You can do us and humanity a great favor if you will let us transplant your daughter's heart." Said Darvall: "If there's no hope for her, then try to save this man's life." He signed the consent...
Fail-Safe Protection. Since animals seem of little help, surgeons have been forced back on human sources. Here, Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway could offer reassurance from many years of experimental surgery on dogs. A nagging question had been: What about the heart's nerve connections, since these cannot be reestablished in transplant surgery? Dr. Shumway's answer: It doesn't matter. Like practically everything else in nature, the heart has fail-safe protection. It has an internal, independent, electrical "ignition systern" to trigger its beats. This system speeds up in response to outside...