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...twelve years earlier. The team has now done 36 transplants using cyclosporine, and although Oyer cautions, "It's too early to tell," the preliminary one-year survival rate has risen from 65% in the 1970s to 79%. One of the recent successes at Stanford is Machinist William Sweet, 44, of Rochester, who had a heart transplant in April, along with cyclosporine treatment. Says Sweet: "I feel great. I'm waiting to go home...
...world without getting wet feet. In David Plante's two previous novels of the Francoeur family, these slippery steppingstones have protruded from still, deep waters. The Family, nominated for a National Book Award in 1979, introduced the French-Canadian clan at home in Providence. Papa was a machinist, and his wife, mother of seven sons, a closet hysteric. Son Daniel, then an adolescent, proved to be a precocious observer and subtle dramatist of domestic conflict. In The Country (1981), Daniel was, like Providence-born Plante, a writer living in London. In 159 pages, that novel conveyed a surprising amount...
Complains Don Douglas, who heads the union local at GM's Pontiac, Mich., truck plant: "We shouldn't have to pay for management's blunders." Adds Machinist Larry Self, a 16-year veteran of the union: "I don't think management is hurting as bad as they say. Why don't they go to the shareholders, and tell them they are cutting the dividend rather than take it out of the hide of the worker...
...aide; her husband Ronald was just promoted from city painter to maintenance manager at O'Hare International Airport, thus becoming the highest paid city worker in the clan ($34,000). Another daughter, Mary Ann, works for the city housing department, and she is married to a police department machinist. Roti's daughter-in-law works for the health department; her husband Bruno held a job with the police until last year, when he was convicted of extortion. Nine nieces and nephews and two cousins are city employees. Sums up Roti, whose own salary is $28,000: "They...
...spite of everything, the brothers love each other and their parents. They decide that their late father, a machinist, was "a great man" and take comfort from this belief. One says: "We're all separated, we brothers, and hardly know what one another is doing, and yet that doesn't matter, because we know one another in a bigger way, which keeps us together. Isn't that so?" Daniel answers, "Yes." And this stark, moving novel echoes that affirmative. -By Paul Gray