Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nave was adazzle with tinted plumes and winking tiaras. Packed into rows of rented wooden chairs, the 2,000 waiting guests put their best profiles forward for the 30 TV cameras covering the abbey. At 12:02, two minutes behind schedule, a trumpet fanfare sounded from the rafters, the organ thundered Holy, Holy, Holy, and the bridal procession started its stately advance up the blue-carpeted aisle...
...Insight. Surgeons are virtually unanimous in believing that the most exciting and promising new area now being opened to them is the field of transplantation. After this momentary agreement, they promptly offer a thousand differing opinions on how soon transplantation of an organ from one human being to another will become a daily routine instead of the headline-heralded event that it is today. They are equally diverse in their views as to how surgery will eventually overcome the fact that all animals, and especially man, are designed to resist any invasion of foreign protein from any creature except...
...great insight that "the singular character of the individual entirely dissuades us from attempting this work in another person, for such is the force and power of individuality." Three centuries later, Charles Claude Guthrie and Alexis Carrel learned the wisdom of this judgment. With great virtuosity, they proved that organ grafts between animals were surgically possible. Guthrie even succeeded in grafting a second head onto a dog; more constructively, he and Carrel learned how to stitch together the ends of small, slippery blood vessels so that they would neither leak nor become clogged by clots. But for all their dexterity...
...have pioneered with transplanted kidneys since 1950, decided to try and give him one. First they needed a healthy volunteer to donate a kidney. They found one-a woman. Then they got down to one of the most hazardous tasks of modern surgery, that of transplanting a living organ from donor to host...
...several other causes. Parisians who move to the suburbs and buy cars for commuting no longer pick up a paper to read on the Metro. Since the war the provincial press has boomed. And such party-lining metropolitan papers as the Communist L'Humanite, and La Nation, organ of Charles de Gaulle's U.N.R. Party, have become bores. Most damaging of all has been the spurt in radio and television news coverage. In the last decade the number of French television sets has grown 60-fold...