Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limits, there would be no point to the freeze in the first place. All the gains would evaporate at once; prices would rise sharply to make up for the hold-down, and wages would jump to keep pace. The federal official charged with special responsibility for Phase 2 is Herbert Stein of the Council of Economic Advisers, an outspoken economist who was a vigorous opponent of wage-price regulation only a few months...
...Herbert Marcuse's doctrine that the vote is meaningless seems to have relatively few adherents among the young. This month the Boston suburb of Woburn provided a nutshell refutation of Marcuse's argument. During most of July, the town had been racked by firebombings and clashes between youths and the police. Mayor Edward F. Gill rejected virtually all the youths' demands. After an angry protest meeting, more than 50 of the young suddenly stalked across to Town Hall to protest in a quieter but far more effective way. They registered to vote. Said a spokesman: "When they...
...Technique. A fatal mugging provided one. Jackson Gunya, 28, died after neurosurgeons found his brain injury irreparable. Barnard was ready for the six-hour operation that centered on a new technique. First, Herbert's chest was opened, he was put on the heart-lung machine, and his heart was removed -all but part of the left auricle (upper chamber). Next, Barnard removed each lung, leaving most of the patient's bronchi (the two main branches from the windpipe). These were clamped. Then the surgeon closed off the stumps of the pulmonary veins attached to the left auricle...
...last he was ready to install the transplant. It had been tailored to fit, with the bronchi cut short. These were stitched to Herbert's bronchi. The venae cavae, the great veins that return blood to the heart's upper right chamber, were connected, as in an ordinary heart transplant. In like fashion, the aorta was hooked up. It all went "without a hitch," said Barnard...
Soon after Herbert emerged from the anaesthesia, his secondhand heart and lungs were described as functioning adequately. In three days he was sitting up to eat breakfast. Then he suffered a setback and needed mechanical assistance in breathing. But at week's end Herbert was progressing satisfactorily...