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...Rushed by ambulance from the airport, the kidney was bathed in nutrient-rich fluid, then "typed" so that doctors could choose a recipient whose body tissue matched it. Out of the clinic's list of some 200 potential candidates, the doctors picked Puerto Rican-born Jose Serrano, a former construction worker with incurably diseased kidneys who was alive only because he was hooked three times weekly, four hours a day, to a dialysis machine...
Sometimes learning more physical blue-collar work can be a way out of the white-collar ghettos. Ann Serrano, 25, was a telephone operator for Pacific Telephone in Inglewood, Calif., a few years ago. Now, after on-the-job training, she has doubled her salary by learning to repair and maintain telephone equipment. "Some men resent it and still don't have confidence in women," she says. "But they will have to recognize that from now on, this is the way it's going...
...papers are false. Back in New York, the police check out a dozen possible Frankies and are convinced their man is Frankie Segarra, a small-time pusher. Other officers trace a dog-vaccination certificate that they found in the Plymouth to the girl friend of a Luis Serrano Velez. They think he is the triggerman. Her address lists the wrong street, but police check 507 East on every street in the area until they find her apartment at 507 East 13th Street. The police get a search warrant from a judge...
After that Brayton allowed only one runner to get past first base. The junior lefthander gave up two singles in the next five innings and had retired seven men in a row when Art Serrano pinch-hit for him in the eight inning...
Twice Harvard had men in scoring position with only out, but both times Dougherty retired the next two batters. In the seventh inning two errors and a sacrifice put men on second and third, but both Mackey and Bilodeau grounded out. In the eighth Serrano reached second on a walk and a sacrifice by Vince McGugan, but Harvey and Larry Barbiaux were unable to advance him any further...