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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Melting Copper. To save money, Khrushchev seemed ready to start a modern wave of iconoclasm: "You know how irrationally we use metal on various monuments to satisfy philistine tastes. We pay gold to buy copper abroad. If Lenin would rise up he would say: 'Our great cause is not ennobled by monuments.' Let us issue a call for removing copper where it is unnecessary, and let us melt it down for more important things...
...shot of blood in the arm may save a life, but a transfusion of the wrong kind of blood can kill as surely as a shot through the head. Doctors cannot estimate how many lives are saved by the 5,000,000 pints of blood that flow each year into the veins of about 2,500,000 U.S. patients; but they believe transfusion accidents cause 3,000 deaths a year...
...York center will keep a running inventory of all blood available, classified by types (A, B, AB, and O), by various subtypes, and by Rh factor-a service that should save a lot of needless nonsense. Recently, New York Hospital sent to Boston for a pint of raretype blood, Metropolitan Hospital sent to Milwaukee for another, and Presbyterian Hospital sent to England. All three types were on hand in the city, though none knew where to find...
...knows what she has been told by a possibly paranoid American (Daniel Crohem): that a young man (Giani Esposito) she has just met is "next." The idea obsesses her. It sounds like a mischievous fiction, but suppose it isn't? And if it isn't, can she save the young man's life...
...Harvard makes a Harvardman, and Yale a Yalie, is one of those questions that really has no answer, save of the kind propounded in monstrous social relations theses. But a few of the concrete differences between the two institutions are not quite this murky, and also rather intriguing. In particular, there the difference between the Harvard House and the Yale College...