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...many forms of leukemia, the blood-cell factory inside the victim's bone marrow produces too many white blood cells, of the wrong kind, and too fast. To get the marrow back on a proper production schedule, medical investigators have tried many ingenious, drastic and daring experiments. Now five Paris doctors believe they have found a possible answer in the blood and bone marrow of a patient's relatives...
...Mathé, got the idea from the emergency treatment improvised in 1958 for victims of a reactor accident in Yugoslavia-five nuclear scientists who got what would ordinarily have been a fatal overdose of radiation. Four were pulled through and are still doing well, thanks to injections of bone marrow. The radiation that almost killed the patients had made them able to accept other people's marrow cells, instead of rejecting them through nature's familiar "immune reaction...
Last spring, when some of the same doctors had a male patient of 26 dying of leukemia, they decided to give him marrow transplants. But whose marrow? His parents were still living; so were three brothers and a sister. Rather than trust their own judgment in picking which relative had the closest-matching marrow cells, the doctors left the choice to nature...
Death, Please. As he entered the courtroom last week, Georgiev gave the audience one quick glance, then grimly pressed his lips together and listened to an hour-long reading of the indictment without a change of expression. He was "politically and morally corrupted to the marrow," declared the prosecutor. Why bother to disagree? With a shrug, and in a firm, soft voice, Georgiev requested his own death sentence...
ALFONSO OSSORIO-Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th St. Twenty-nine panels on which seashells, fake pearls, links of rusty chain, hunks of bone (with glass eyes staring from the marrow), shards of mirrors, jaw teeth, driftwood and other flotsam have become mired in puddles of plastic glue. Gaudy, repetitious and faintly emetic. Through...