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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recipient baby, whose identity was kept secret, was a healthy pink as his donated heart pumped normally oxygenated blood. Other criteria for the patient's recovery all seemed favorable. But after 6½ hours, the heart suddenly stopped. There had been no time for the rejection mechanism to intrude-that takes days or weeks, and is, besides, less likely to be severe in infants. Dr. Kantrowitz, drawn and shaken, conceded that he and his colleagues had no idea why they had failed in their attempt "to make one whole individual out of two individuals who did not have...
...somebody else's heart." (And making the common error of confusing the fictional Dr. Frankenstein with the monster he made.) Washkansky was well enough to go through a radio interview with a doctor. He ate well, and said his only complaint was that he was aching from being kept too long lying...
Guthrie grafted a second head onto a dog half a century before the Russians did it in 1959. Carrel kept part of a chicken's heart "alive" in a laboratory flask. But they still could not get organ grafts between two animals to take for any length of time...
Snip, Snip. It is typical of both the varied splendors of the Walters and the casualness with which they are kept that the show marks the first time that a complete catalogue of the museum's 215 enamels has been prepared. The task was completed with the aid of a $12,500 Ford Foundation grant-and a dozen more catalogues are needed. Many experts believe that the Walters has one of the top ten all-round public collections in the country, but nobody knows for sure. The museum has shown so many superlative examples of work from the classical...
...gold pool partners and its creditors throughout the world are not at all anxious to bring down the present monetary system by drawing out the remaining U.S. supply. And Congress, as Moore urges, may soon expand the available supply by ending the requirement that enough gold be kept frozen to back a minimum 25% of the value of currency in circulation. That would free all of the nation's $12.43 billion in gold for the support of the $35 price abroad...