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...Gulfport, Miss. motel last week cruised a Pontiac station wagon. There the owner unloaded a wondrous array of equipment: an indoor barbecue set and an outdoor barbecue set, a box of charcoal and a box of pots and pans, cocktail glasses, an ice chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw...
...land it owns adjacent to Northland. Still another Hudson's shopping center-Westland-is in the works, and there are signs that under its young, new boss, Hudson's may move even farther afield. Fortnight ago, J. L. Jr. announced plans to open a budget store outside Pontiac, 30 miles from Detroit. If the customers come, Hudson stores may ultimately spring up all over Michigan...
...practice. At Moscow's Sklifosovsky Institute, almost 30 tons of it have been given in 30,000 transfusions since the method was first tried there in 1930. U.S. doctors have shied away from it because of prejudice against contact with anything taken from a corpse. The Pontiac pathologists hoped that this prejudice was weakening with wider acceptance of corneal grafting and the transplanting of bone and arteries from accident victims...
...autopsy can check every vital organ for disease-including the liver for evidence of hepatitis. They select as donors only the corpses of presumably healthy individuals who die suddenly, as in traffic accidents or from heart attacks. A cadaver yields far more blood than a walking donor: the Pontiac investigators have drawn as many as three pints from a grown man; the Russians say they get as many as eight pints...
...strict rules must be followed in using cadaver blood. It must be drawn within six hours after death from a subject with no known infectious disease, and a complete autopsy must be done. When these conditions are met, say the Pontiac doctors in Clinical Pathology, "we know it can do no harm and that it offers tremendous potential good...