Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECOND TYPE--This classification is made up of those who unconditionally support the direction of the Cultural Revolution. This type of reaction, though a minority one, claims that Maoism is the only philosophy capable of standing against those of the western world...
Perhaps the most conspicuous fact about the Japanese reaction to the Revolution is the extent of disillusionment among pro-Chinese intellectuals. They have begun to look at the process of the Revolution with more realistic eyes than before. This profoundly affects the over-all Japanese attitude towards the China problem and towards all Asian problems. Officials of the Japanese government, who once seriously worried of the danger of a Chinese-American war, are now more optimistic because of the Revolution. They now dismiss the possibility of such a war and even dismiss the possibility of Chinese intervention in Vietnam...
...Peking--thereby reversing the trend of the early and mid-fifties to bring the leading local leaders to Peking as they proved their capabilities at the local levels. The trends towards specialization (i.e., functional assignments within the Party, the government bureaucracy, etc.) were also eroded during this period of reaction to the failures of the Great Leap Forward...
Cadavers Are Best. The ideal way to get around the rejection reaction is to find an organ donor with the same immunity pattern as the recipient. This happens with any certainty only in the case of identical twins. For patients not so fortunate as to have an identical twin, the conferees agreed, the best source for a donated kidney is a brother or sister, with the mother next. The one-year survival rate for kidneys from close relatives, reported Dr. Joseph E. Murray of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, is now 70%. For the patients themselves...
...seriously weaken or help to kill a patient. A major factor in boosting the cure rate in the past two years, said Dr. Murray, has been a steady reduction in the dosage of azathioprine. The researchers gathered at Duke were seeking new and gentler ways of avoiding the rejection reaction by manipulating the immune mechanism itself. Among the most promising approaches currently being investigated...