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...grant, which was part of a $33.6 million award to the MBTA announced yesterday in Washington by Senator Edward W. Brooke (R Mass.), will provide around two-thirds of the funds needed for the construction of an MBTA train-storage and repair station on the site of the now-vacant Penn Central railyards on Dover St. in Boston...
Connally is actually a smoother, boardroom version of Lyndon Johnson, more deliberative in style and, of course, lacking the patronage and power that L.B.J. commanded as President. His first mission for Nixon was to try to repair the damage done to Lockheed Aircraft's Tri-Star project when Rolls-Royce, the contractor for the plane's jet engine, announced bankruptcy. Connally discreetly bullied the British into propping up Rolls with funds, then turned to Lockheed. On Connally's advice, Lockheed's chairman of the board, Dan Haughton, traveled the nation organizing financial support from banks...
...Squatting in their refugee camps with little gainful employment, thrown into an urban environment they can hardly understand or cope with, many have lost their grip on their traditions and values. The land will mend, but what of the social fabric? In some places it is already tattered beyond repair, and the longer those millions of refugees stay cooped up in their tin sheds, the more the fabric will unravel...
Repertory of Repair. Only four years ago, this and other operations to improve the circulation of blood to overtaxed hearts were either unknown or experimental. Now revascularization, or "replumbing," has become the most popular item in the thoracic surgeon's repertory of heart repairs-and with good reason. Most of the 500,000-plus Americans who die each year of heart disease suffer from atherosclerosis, the buildup of hard, fatty deposits that narrow the coronary arteries and cut off the flow of oxygenated blood to the heart muscles. Only revascularization, which is simpler and safer than transplant surgery, offers...
...This is an essentially simple operation," he says. "It's got to be kept simple because we've got to get heart repair to the community-hospital level...