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Besides the workers who will be staying on, the Nixons may inherit another White House regular. Blanco, the President's sometimes shy and nervous white collie, has finally grown accustomed to the grounds, and L.B.J. is hesitant to transplant him to the nontransitional environment of Texas...
...Supreme Court decision was "a major surgical operation performed by nine men in black robes on the racial Maginot Line which is imbedded as deep as sex or the lust for lucre in the schismatic American psyche. This piece of social surgery ... is more marvelous than a successful heart transplant would be, for it was meant to graft the nation's Mind back onto its Body and vice versa...
...which can be said of this parody. In layout, it is remarkably like Life, and its insipid color photographs of nature's wonders are a fine exaggeration of Life's tendencies in that direction. While not much of the copy is consistently funny, the essay on the mobile heart transplant team that plucks 'em while they're hot from accident victims whose eyes are closed is an excellent...
Detested Strep. Before this can be circumvented completely, the transplant antigens must be better understood both chemically and biologically. Then perhaps they can be manipulated so that a recipient will get an injection to switch off his rejection mechanism before he gets his transplant. The most encouraging news of progress toward this goal came from British investigators, who reported that some mouse antigens appear remarkably similar to man's and might therefore serve as a source of raw material. More surprisingly, New York University's Dr. Felix T. Rapaport reported that a similar antigen can be extracted from...
...line for further research. But the implication for future treatment was clear, although the method by which the antigen would be treated or administered to protect a graft was not. If it happens that the detested streptococci are eventually "farmed" as a wholesale source of raw material for a transplant vaccine, that will be no more surprising than the transplant successes already achieved...