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...first glance the recent strange activity on the playing field of the St. Mary Magdalene school in Richmond, England, seemed to be a peculiarly British version of student militancy. Taking careful aim, 23 schoolchildren hurled a volley of eggs at their science master, Garth Willson, who was standing 40 feet away on the grass. Actually, it was simply a variation of a teaching technique that English secondary schools are scrambling to adopt: egg throwing...
Dunlop did not appear at the rally, but Humphrey Doermann, assistant to the Dean for Financial Affairs, read a statement from him. Doermann said Dunlop was in Richmond, Virginia, at an alumni gathering...
...time when many of the once-great micropolitan dailies are consolidating into huge monopolies that fabricate vast chains of syndicated pablum, the underground press is providing a growing and piquantly creative alternative for an increasingly vocal subculture. And the success of papers in such unlikely places as Richmond, Va., testifies that even the straight world is becoming interested in the counter-culture newspapers...
...caused no such widespread difficulties. Finally, in 1968, Indianapolis Cardiologist Robert Chevalier diagnosed heart disease of such severity that only a new heart could give Russell a chance for survival. He referred Russell to Surgeon Richard Lower at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Lower had worked at Stanford University with Dr. Norman Shumway devising, in animals, the transplant technique that Surgeon Christiaan Barnard later adopted...
...Richmond, Russell waited until Lower could give him a suitable heart; it turned out to be that of a 17-year-old-boy who had died of a gunshot wound in the head. That was Aug. 24, 1968. Since then, Russell has had four crises caused by his body's rejection of the implanted heart. Each time, Dr. Chevalier increased Russell's daily dosage of immunosuppressive drugs, but reduced it again within a few weeks, so that Russell's defenses against infection were not seriously impaired for long...