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...became an international celebrity in 1967 after performing the world's first human heart transplant; in Cyprus. His patient died 18 days later, but Barnard's second transplant recipient survived for 19 months. His operations also pioneered the use of organs from brain-dead victims (see Eulogy). DIED. CARMINE NIGRO, 91, first chess teacher of Bobby Fischer, the former world champion; in Peachtree City, Georgia. In 1951, Nigro, then president of the Brooklyn Chess and Checkers Club, befriended the eight-year-old Fischer at a chess exhibition. He taught the boy for three years, but Fischer found a new tutor...
...apparent World War II buff recommends "A Mind in Prison: The Memoir of a Son and Soldier of the Third Reich" by Bruno Manz, "Wolfsangel : A German City on Trial 1945-48" by August J. Nigro and "In the Skies of Europe : Air Forces Allied to the Luftwaffe 1939-1945" by Hans Werner Neulen...
John T. Dunlop, Lamont University professor emeritus; Joseph W. Nigro, general agent for the Boston chapter of the Building and Construction Trades Council; and David A. Zewinski '76, senior vice president for property operations and construction at Harvard Real Estate, all spoke briefly on and answered questions from first years about the dorm renovation project, which is slated to be finished by fall...
Dunlop and Nigro, who helped negotiate the Project-Labor Agreement between Harvard and local unions, explained the agreement, under which the union takes a 10 percent pay cut for renovation work and agreesnot to strike or make a time-consuming protest andmanagement agrees to use only union labor...
...Nigro emphasized, however, that the unionsinvolved had made some sacrifices to allow theproject to proceed...