Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dienbienphu. During the week the President spoke, in person or by phone, with at least 100 Senators and Representatives. There was a two-hour breakfast meeting at the White House for congressional leaders. In a concentrated effort to line up bipartisan support, Johnson summoned Republican Leaders Everett Dirksen and Gerald Ford to a lengthy White House briefing and dispatched an aide to former President Eisenhower's winter home in Indian Wells, Calif. Diplomatic and military experts such as General Matthew Ridgway, Henry Cabot Lodge and Maxwell Taylor were asked for advice...
...fact, Anna Christina Olson, and until her death last week of a heart attack at the age of 74, very few people had ever seen her in person, although millions know her from Wyeth's work. A reclusive spinster who lived in a weatherbeaten grey homestead in Cushing, Me., up the road a piece from the house in which Wyeth and his family have summered for many years, Christina Olson was severely crippled by polio in childhood. Nonetheless, she supported herself for most of her life as a seamstress, earned a local reputation as a fine cook...
...enables a person, without the consent of next of kin, to bequeath parts or the whole of his body for research and transplant use. It represents three years of legislative work by the surgeons. It represents, too, a major breakthrough for heart, kidney, and liver transplant patients...
...Should a person decide to donate his organs to a hospital or medical school, he and his physician will complete the five forms. They include his statement of donation; the physican's statement ("... the donor was of sound mind and not under the influence of narcotic drugs..."); a statement by next of kin; provisions for burial; and a reference to the hospital or medical school receiving the organs. The donor must be twenty...
Properly registered he will receive a small laminated card to be carried like a driver's license. The card allows a doctor to remove legally the person's organs within minutes after death. For the transplant of kidneys, livers, and hearts, this "quick-time" is essential...