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...young people of today are reviving interest in his works. Despite Miss Duffy's review in TIME, this great pioneer in literature will have his "place in the sun." TEDI DREISER LANGDON Atlanta...
...learning how to transplant hearts, the operation seems destined to remain a rarity because donors are scarce and the problem of tissue rejection is still unsolved. Therefore, researchers have been working for more than a decade to develop an implantable artificial heart. Last week, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the surgical pioneer who performed the first heart transplant in the U.S., moved the effort a significant step forward. In Detroit's Sinai Hospital, he put an artificial heart booster into the chest of Haskell Shanks, 63, whose heart was so weakened that it could not pump enough oxygenated blood...
...Government. Younger experts wryly refer to him as "King John." Starting as an expert on 19th century China, Fairbank has long argued for serious, sustained attention to the mainland. Historian Benjamin Schwartz's interests range widely, from Confucian thought to the rise of Mao; Ezra Vogel is a pioneer in the growing field of China sociology. Jerome Cohen was one of the first Westerners to become knowledgeable about Chinese law. Historian James Thomson Jr., a Kennedy and Johnson Administration adviser, is already a leader in the imminently expanding area of Chinese-American relations...
...youngster has accidentally explored another method-packing her ear. The aural high was reported in a whimsical letter to the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Thomas E. Piemme of the George Washington University School of Medicine. Identified only as a "young lady of 18," the unwitting pioneer was undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an antiwar demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left ear. How to extract the wad became another problem; amateur efforts pushed the dampened hash deeper...
This is camping? It is indeed, a Southern California transmutation of the American pioneer spirit. For years, camp grounds across the U.S. have been growing increasingly effete, but some sort of new mark is set by Campland, just off the heavily traveled San Diego Freeway. Essentially, Campland is a 42-acre parking lot that can accommodate 800 assorted trailers, mobile homes and just plain tents. For a fee that ranges from $4 to $6, depending on the size of lot, a family can pretend it is camping out while still enjoying the delights of suburbia. Television addicts can plug...