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...nicknamed "Le Grand Orange" (for his flaming red hair) and, at 28, seemed to have it made north of the border. Last week, after getting four hits in four attempts against the Cubs, he was hitting .310 and proving almost daily that he was thriving on the international transplant. Fregosi, too, was adding punch at the plate...
...radio, and he performed both onstage with as much spirit as he had on record. "Domine" is one of the best of the nonsense lyrics songs. Listen to it, it makes absolutely no sense. But you can dance to it, and imagine it coming over your car radio. Transplant the whole image to the Orpheum Theatre, with the bassman dancing frantically by himself just offstage, and you have a picture of Morrison's new music. "Wild Night" has more meaning, but is just as joyous and just as much fun to listen to. These two songs summarize...
Hopeful that a similar operation could help Maggie, Ammann took advantage of California's liberalized abortion law to search for an appropriate fetal thymus. The task proved difficult. For best results, Ammann needed a transplant from a healthy fetus 14 to 20 weeks old. These are rare because most California abortions are performed before the twelfth week of pregnancy. But in December, Ammann found a woman who was having a late abortion on psychiatric grounds and got permission to use the fetus' thymus...
Last month, Ammann tried the operation again on Matthew Octavio of Petaluma, four weeks old, who suffered from an immune defect that had killed six of his cousins. He was sent home, then returned to hospital with a possible respiratory infection, which the transplant might help him to overcome...
...Ammann sees no ethical problems in his operation. "We don't go around soliciting abortions," he says. "These are abortions that are already being done for other reasons." Dr. Samuel Kountz, a kidney specialist at the U.C. Medical Center, would like to try an even bolder operation-the transplant of a fetal kidney...