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SURGEONS dream of the day when they will be able to replace any worn-out or damaged human organ with a spare part, either artificially made or taken from another person. That medical Utopia seems to be coming closer. Last week a little boy with a ruptured aorta was technically dead for 2¾ hours while surgeons put in a new bit of vital plumbing donated by a man recently dead. Another surgical feat, less dramatic but equally remarkable in its own way, was performed on a pretty teen-ager who, without knowing it, was becoming deformed by a curvature...
Reward from Moscow. Last week Dolci won another kind of victory. Praising the "incisive vigor" with which Dolci had depicted the "inhuman conditions" in Sicily, Radio Moscow gratuitously announced that "Peace Partisan" Dolci had won the Lenin (formerly Stalin) Peace Prize. Rome's La Giustizia, organ of the Social Democrats, promptly appealed to non-Communist Dolci to reject an award which "comes from the executioners of the workers in Hungary." Dolci did not even hesitate. "I shall always accept, from anywhere, gifts that help my mission of good works," he said. He announced that the $25,000 prize money...
...been used. There was still no sign of a heartbeat or of life in David's eyes. The clamps were removed. Then the seemingly unbelievable happened. Says Dr. Mahajan, who was still massaging David's heart at the time: "One moment it was a flabby, lifeless organ. Suddenly it swelled alive-strong, firm, and pumping steadily...
...Journal's eight-man staff also stands diligent guard over top-level military policies, carries voluminous texts of significant military documents. Boasts Publisher Robert Ames: "We reach the top management audience of the military." The Journal's weak spot is its tendency to be a house organ for the military. This it does with out shame or doubt, meticulously listing in country-weekly style all military transfers (sometimes thousands an issue), runs a chatty society section devoted to service doings, plus a vital statistics column in which, as one staffer says, "an Army brasshat has to be mentioned...
...Populaire, organ of France's Socialist Party, praised the Prime Ministers for establishing "an equilibrium between political and military imperatives." And in Belgium the Roman Catholic Het Volk took comfort in the thought that "the Russians will be placed face to face with clear and concrete disarmament proposals. If the Soviets refuse again, a period of painful pessimism may follow, but at least the world will know where it stands...