Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after his announcement, Rockefeller went to Philadelphia to de liver the second of his major position speeches. The first, two weeks earlier, had been on the urban crisis and caused few ripples. Now he spoke about Viet Nam, a subject on which he had been silent for two years. He proposed no radical departures, attempted instead to camp on unexceptionable middle ground. The U.S., he maintained, must seek a settlement "whose aims and guarantees safeguard the freedom and security of all Southeast Asia." The "Americanization of the effort, military and civilian, should be reversed." At the same time, he argued...
...organ bank from which surgeons could draw a kidney, a liver or a heart for transplantation when needed is still far off in the future, but an information bank from which surgeons may find out about organs as they become available is in the process of being established. Sponsor of the bank-or, more precisely, clearinghouse-is the Medic Alert Foundation. Started on a shoestring twelve years ago in Turlock, Calif., by Dr. Marion Collins, the organization has by now issued something like 200,000 identification bracelets and necklace tags to victims of diabetes, hemophilia, penicillin allergy and other conditions...
...wonder that it is used in so many successful commercial products. But carbon tet has its seamy side. Inhaled or soaked up through the skin, it can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, stupor, heart irregularities, lung congestion, liver and kidney damage-possibly even death. It is especially dangerous for people who have just had a few drinks...
Died. Paul Cardinal Richaud, 80, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bordeaux since 1950; of a liver ailment; in Bordeaux. Convinced that an active church is a strong one, Richaud supported France's Catholic Action campaign, expanded parochial schools, and reorganized apostolic duties to give laymen more voice. He was the eighth cardinal to die in the past eight months...
...enables a person, without the consent of next of kin, to bequeath parts or the whole of his body for research and transplant use. It represents three years of legislative work by the surgeons. It represents, too, a major breakthrough for heart, kidney, and liver transplant patients...