Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Desperate Condition. The source, as usual, was the victim of a traffic accident. Ten-year-old Jennifer Schrikker was killed by a car, and her mother gave permission for the surgeons to use the child's heart. During the transplant-implant operation, which began at midnight and lasted five hours, Taylor was on the heart-lung machine, which maintains the patient's circulation, allowing his own heart to be stopped during the delicate operation. Only then did Barnard discover how desperate his condition had been: "His left ventricle was nothing but a bag of fibrous tissue." Barnard...
...native of Madison, Wis., Lamm speaks less with the measured drawl of the Westerner than with the rapid-fire delivery of the transplant. But zealous as he is on the environment, he is no extremist. "I am a politician of the finite," he says, and he fully expects to cooperate with Republicans, who are scarcely less alarmed about the future of their state than Democrats. "We're not saying 'no growth' or opting for a steady state economy," says Lamm. "But growth has to be controlled. What we're really demanding is that growth...
Among the menaced: Stewardess Karen Black, who squawks through the pilot's radio to Airline Biggie-and her lover of six years-Charlton Heston, as he tries to effect a mid-air rescue; Medical Problem Linda Blair, who is supposed to have a kidney in need of a transplant but seems to suffer more acutely from an Ipana smile and a crinkly nose; and Singing Nun Helen Reddy, who croons a tune that goes "I'm a best friend to myself." To know who finally saves the day you have only to check who gets top billing...
...last December. A poll published last month by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, showed Carey leading Wilson by the surprising margin of 52% to 27%. Carey's strong showing has improved the once dismal prospects of his ticketmate: former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, an ultra-liberal Texas transplant who is challenging liberal G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, 70, long (perhaps too long) New York's biggest vote-getter...
...shooting began. The station's live pictures of the life-and-death holocaust were then fed to other L.A. stations and to the rest of the nation. WNBC-TV in New York City has taken a minicamera into an operating room to broadcast live snippets of a kidney transplant during its two-hour evening news program...