Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front of the museum fly 14 flags representing the nationalities of the patrons who contributed funds to build it. Among them are Novelist Alberto Moravia, Philosopher Martin Heidegger and Composer Igor Stravinsky, Film Directors John Huston, Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard, Diplomat George Kennan and Heart Surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard. For those who had thought of Manzù as a strictly religious artist, the museum's collection may be a minor revelation. It demonstrates Manzù's uniquely quattrocento humanistic outlook, a faith and joy in life that could comprehend both genuine piety and unabashed lustiness. Besides...
...about the cold-eyed and ruthlessly honest Philadelphia realist. Aside from the poet, whom Ea kins portrayed in 1888 as a twinkling old sage, few people could stand having their character laid bare with the visceral objectivity that Eakins brought to portraiture. He used his brush like a surgeon's scalpel, exposing old wounds, concealed ambitions, ill manners. The commissions he did receive often ended unpleasantly; his studio was littered with rejected portraits. One fashionable lady, dismayed at what was taking shape on canvas, asked if her maid might finish the sittings...
Divorced. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 46, South African surgeon who in 1967 rose to fame by performing the first successful human heart transplant; by Aletta Gertruida Barnard, 45, a former nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital; on grounds of technical desertion; after 21 years of marriage, two children; in Cape Town, South Africa. Though Barnard obviously enjoyed his celebrity status, his wife was less impressed. "I've got a home to run," she said at one point, "whether we are famous...
...second row are the flight surgeon (whose shorthand designation is "Surgeon," never "Doc"), and the spacecraft communicator, or "Capcom." White dots sliding across the surgeon's console screen indicate heart and respiration rate's of the astronauts. Capcom, always an astronaut himself, handles all communication with the crew, giving the men who are deep in space a direct link with one of their own. Only in emergencies does anyone else take the microphone. There were none with Apollo...
After the astronauts are taken by helicopter to the recovery carrier, they will be hustled without ceremony into a biologically sealed van that vaguely resembles a house trailer without wheels. There they will join a flight surgeon and a technician, who will share the remainder of their quarantine time with them. During the next 67 hours, the sealed van with its five occupants will travel aboard the carrier to Ford Island, Hawaii, where it will be unloaded, flown in a C-141 to Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, and transported by truck to the Manned Spacecraft Center...