Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. 23--President Sukarno of Indonesia has thrown a monkey wrench into mediation machinery built up by U. S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy for a settlement of the Malaysian crisis...
...rate, Kenya seemed well on the way to solving its unemployment problem. To qualify for veterans' benefits, Nairobi's neediest only have to trot out of town, drape themselves in a monkey skin and return chanting a Mau Mau jingle. It was all a little embarrassing for Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. Branch offices of his ruling KANU party, having promised to feed all newly returned Mau Maus until they get settled, were going broke all through the former White Highlands, where the self-styled heroes aim to get 16-acre farms on the Mau Mau bill of rights...
...still highly experimental and seldom successful for long, Charity Hospital surgeons had more desperately ill patients needing transplants than there were human donors available. Early this fall they had made an heroic attempt to deal with the shortage by transplanting two kidneys from a rhesus monkey to a 32-year-old woman (TIME, Oct. 25). But after a few days, the patient died. All the doctors could offer Davis was the same sort of slim chance...
...better now than I have in five years." How did he feel about having kidneys from a chimpanzee? "The doctors explained I couldn't live with what I'd got. I was worried, of course-but not about the animal business. I knew it would be a monkey. It didn't bother me. All I wanted to do was to survive. I feel wonderful." Feeling that way, Davis went home for Christmas with his four children, ages 13 to 19. "I'll just sit back and wait for the mailman," he said. With a Government pension...
...Reemtsma: "We have taken every precaution with this transplant. Even if it should now fail, we could still defend its use ethically and medically." One factor that gives this operation a better chance of success than the woman's is that her transplant, from a 25-lb. monkey, had small capacity. But even if they functioned at only 50% efficiency, the 80-lb. Adam's kidneys would still be capable of clearing the blood for the 130-lb. Davis...