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...last week: "I spent some of it, saved some of it and had fun with some of it." Brown promised not to gamble any more during his remaining six months in office. He may also quit smoking: late Saturday night the Governor, who had been suffering chest pains, underwent open-heart surgery to remove blockages...
...substance, known as anti-hemophiliac factor concentrate (AHF), comes from the blood of 25,000 to 75,000 donors. In the past year the CDC has also received alarming reports of about eight cases of suspected AIDS in nonhemophiliac blood recipients. Four cases had received donor blood after open-heart surgery; a fifth was a hysterectomy patient. In a sixth case, that of a baby in San Francisco who had required several transfusions, some of the donated blood came from a man later diagnosed as having AIDS...
...Open-heart surgery as entertainment
...using a fleet of 11 military jets (each costing $742 an hour out of the Pentagon's budget) to bring Senators back for the vote and ensure them a quick flight home when it was over. Even Barry Goldwater, who was in an Arizona hospital recuperating from open-heart surgery, returned to Washington. "The sky was dark with Air Force planes bringing back Senators, kicking and screaming," Helms complained. Senators finally strangled the filibuster for good by an 81-to-5 vote, then passed the gas tax, 54 to 33. Baker, who had triumphed because of the reservoir...
...young couple walk through a "Japanese garden" filled with blank-faced nisei standing in planters. Raid the fridge and you will miss the visit Sergeant-Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) pays to a shoeshine wizard who knows everything about the Underworld-and about life after death, open-heart surgery and the fate of the Dodgers' pitching staff...