Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Julie Cherie Rodriguez died in her sleep last week at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver. Only 2½ years old, Julie made surgical history by living for a record 13 months after a liver transplant, the most difficult organ transfer yet attempted. Death resulted from a recurrence of the cancer that first made the transplant necessary. The postmortem showed the new liver, despite some cancerous invasion, worked well to the last...
Last fall Britain devalued the pound, the gold crisis agitated the world-and so did the first human-heart transplant...
That Certain Age. The rest of the cast is a ship of ghouls: a warlock, a 175-year-old witch (played by a nubile blonde), lab-made monsters whose ev ery part is a transplant, a ghost and an agent of the devil. One of the few nearnormal human beings is the matriarch of "Collinwood," the haunted manor that is the scene of the action. That role is filled by the show's top-billed star, former Film Actress Joan Bennett, 58, who says frankly: "You reach a certain age in Hollywood when there's a shortage...
When a heart transplant was suggested and a score of Americans offered to donate their hearts, Ike's doctors declared: "Such a procedure is not indicated because of the general's age and the presence of other major medical conditions"-his widespread artery disease might have affected many vital organs...
...brother-in-law and lifelong friend, Ker-Xavier Roussel. Both were contributors to the mighty explosion that was impressionism, but their visual worlds were quite different. Vuillard was essentially a realist, a chronicler of bourgeois life. Roussel, with his nymphs and gods, was a dreamer, trying to transplant classical Greece into the French landscape...