Word: organism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal part of blood plasma, containing many proteins. In the blood of 60% of the schizophrenics studied by Gottlieb, the fraction was present at far-above-normal levels. The excessive alpha-2-globulin, Gottlieb theorizes, may perforate brain-cell walls and cause leakages that could disrupt the organ's normal processes. Such disruptions might contribute to the delusions, hallucinations and withdrawn state of schizophrenia victims...
...minister, he was raised in Oklahoma and Texas, started music studies at California's San Bernardino Valley College in 1966. Midway in his second semester, dispirited by his mother's death and struggling to sort out his life, Webb dropped out. He had learned the piano and organ well enough to play in his father's church at age eleven and had started composing at 13, so he decided to go to Hollywood and be a songwriter. He wangled a $50-a-week job with a recording studio and rented a cheap apartment, where he slept curled...
...these days in a 22-room Hollywood mansion that serves as his home, corporate headquarters, "crash pad" for friends in need, and raucous rehearsal hall for clients and colleagues. Self-possessed amidst the noise and confusion, he still manages to get to his Yamaha concert grand or his electric organ to work on new music, sometimes with incredible facility (he wrote Up, Up and Away in 35 minutes). In fact, in addition to a plethora of pop projects (including a score for an original film musical), he is branching out to tackle a rock symphony and a concerto for cello...
...equipped with three tiny keyboards, stacked like the manuals of a pipe organ; vines of wires drooped down from their sockets. It looked like a kiddie's toy piano hooked up to a telephone switchboard...
Cooley is a demon for speed. In his first heart transplant, he performed the actual implantation of the donor organ in Everett C. Thomas' chest in 31 min. His second, for Recipient James B. Cobb, took 42 min. Cooley's third transplant, which took about 30 min., raised a legal question. The heart came from Clarence Nicks, 32, who died after being beaten in a barroom brawl. Nicks showed no brain-wave activity and had had no reflexes for hours before his doctors shut off the machine that had been oxygenating the blood in his lungs. There...