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TIME'S own Apollo 11 team in New York consisted of Senior Editor Ronald Kriss, Associate Editor Leon Jaroff, Contributing Editor Marshall Burchard, and Researchers Sydnor Vanderschmidt and Gail Lowman. Dogging NASA officials, scientists and astronauts from Houston and Washington to Cape Kennedy were Correspondents David Lee and Donald Neff, both veterans of previous launches. Neff, who spent two years reporting from Saigon, finds that space "is all the things that despairing war is not. The space program is affirmation. It shows that man's spirit is just as daring and questing as in the time of Homer...
...Eisenhower Administration, outgoing Rep. John Rousselot (R.-Calif.), now a full-time employee of the John Birch Society, Dr. Billy James Hargis of the Christian Crusade, and Thomas Anderson, editor of Farm and Ranch. The other speakers, such as Kent and Phoebe Courtney, New Orleans publishers, and Myers Lowman of Circuit Riders, Inc., are well know on the Right but not prominent nationally...
Bathtubs and Singing Dogs. Last week a reader of the Post could have learned that "Sears, Roebuck Heir Bob Rose will shoot only the greater kudu, sable antelope and mayala" in Mozambique (Doris Lilly), that "climbing, running and jumping in improper or outgrown shoes can do serious damage" (Josephine Lowman's "Why Grow Old?"), that ex-Blonde English Actress Barbara Steel's dark hair is nearer to her true hair color (Sidney Skolsky), or even, in the lead of Eleanor Roosevelt's column, that "We have just celebrated the Fourth of July." The Journal-American was busy...
...Four weeks after her radical kidney-transplant operation at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (TIME, April 28), Mrs. Gladys Lowman, 31, died last week. Main cause: weakened defense against infection due to lack of white blood corpuscles. Forced to transplant a kidney from a child with no genetic relation to Mrs. Lowman, physicians had the problem of countering antibodies that would have rejected the alien organ. For the first time, they tried to solve it by destroying the antibodies' source, the patient's bone marrow, with X rays. Though new bone marrow was injected, it failed...
Last week the Brigham physicians were still faced with the task of offsetting the radiation destruction of both white and red corpuscles, still listed Mrs. Lowman's condition as ''critical." They were unwilling to comment in any way on their achievement. But it was a fortnight after the operation, and the patient was still alive. Moreover, use of the artificial kidney was gradually being eased, and there were hopeful signs that the transplanted kidney was beginning to function...