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...human patient; of an apparent heart attack while playing tennis; in Philadelphia. Gibbon spent 19 years perfecting the device that could take over heart and lung functions during heart surgery. In its first application to a human in 1953, the device worked perfectly for 26 minutes, permitting Gibbon to repair a hole in the heart of an 18-year-old girl. She survived, and Gibbon's achievement opened the way to a variety of heart operations, including transplants. An improved version of his machine is still standard equipment in open-heart surgery...
...team of eight doctors operated on Stennis at Walter Reed for more than six hours, working primarily to repair the damage of one bullet that penetrated his stomach, pancreas and colon. They feared bacterial infection from the colon and harm from digestive enzymes flowing from the open pancreas into the abdominal cavity. The other bullet caused only a flesh wound in his left thigh. While his condition remained "very serious" and the prognosis for recovery was described as "guarded," his good physical condition from years of exercise, nonsmoking and almost no drinking was a factor in his favor...
...hide behind legalisms? The time has come to repair the fabric of our society. One step which will speed that agonizing process would be a Presidential pardon to those who evaded military service. While these individuals have not suffered the fate of prisoners of war in North Vietnam, they are "prisoners of the war" in the sense that they left our country to avoid participation in a war started by forces beyond their control...
Monro sees Miles as a theater where Birmingham blacks can forge the skills and self-consciousness which 12 years in the Birmingham schools and black neighborhoods have stifled. "The question is," Monro says, "'Can you--in a year or two--repair what has happened after 12 years in a poorly funded, inefficient school system?' The answer is 'yes.' You can. You can do a helluva...
...touted "peace divdend" of cash to solve almost every social need. But peace can bring other dividends, not least a resurgence of energies and concern. Hanoi and Sai gon, for example, are not the only war-wasted cities; there are a score in the U.S. desperately in need of repair. There are still Americans starving, as well as Asians, and still many citizens in need of homes and education and the prospects of hope. These unsatisfied needs cannot be blamed on Viet Nam. If the cries of the needy persist in the '70s there will be a social tragedy...