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Ecstasy begins with a platform certain to make any hippie yell yippie: an end to war and pay toilets, legalization of psychedelic drugs, free food, and a heart transplant for L.B.J. Also advocated: "juvenile exhibitionism"-a favorite hippie habit most recently practiced by at least 50 young men and women from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, who stripped to the buff in Golden Gate Park before a crowd of ogling onlookers...
Touring French Singer Francoise Hardy signed autographs for the crowd in Johannesburg, but she was only a spectator herself, waiting outside Groote Schuur Hospital for Philip Blaiberg, 58, world's only living heart-transplant patient. With Surgeon Christiaan Barnard looking on from the doorway, and Wife Elaine at his elbow, Blaiberg took his first breath of fresh air after 74 days in germ-free isolation, then walked to a limousine that carried him home. Ahead lay a careful, publicity-free regimen at his apartment in the suburb of Wynberg, with no visitors for a month, no telephone calls...
After twelve long hours of heart transplant surgery yesterday, doctors at Boston's Hartz Mountain Bird Clinic listed their world-famous patient in "marginal condition." Chief surgeon Dr. Amos P. Goy expressed hope the Ibis would survive, but cautioned that "one can't measure these operations purely in terms of success or failure." Dr. Goy, who in 13 previous attempts kept transplant patients alive an aggregate total of 19 minutes, said a more definite report would be possible by this afternoon...
...night waxed mercilessly into morning, a team of crack surgeons at Boston's renowned Hartz Mountain Bird Clinic worked feverishly to save a life. Head surgeon was Dr. Amos Goy, pioneer in the heart transplant and author of Your Telltale Heart. The life was that of the world-famous Ibis, found near death yesterday beneath a snow drift in Coolidge Corners...
...14th transplant and the first to be performed on an Ibis. To date, none of Dr. Goy's patients has survived, although optimism focused briefly on his daring attempt to transplant 312 canary hearts into a dying elephant. "For a while Bethesda seemed to be doing just fine," Dr. Goy said yesterday, "but the damn hearts wouldn't stay in phase...