Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumors of failing health follow wherever he goes, but Pope John XXIII, 81, appears to be going everywhere possible. At the start of a busy weekend, he attended twin ceremonies in the Vatican Palace and St. Peter's Basilica, accepting his $160,000 Peace Prize (earmarked for charity) from the Swiss-Italian Balzan Foundation, next day turned up in the Quirinal Palace, where Italian President Antonio Segni presented Balzan awards to other cultural leaders. As he rode through Rome in an open car, the Pontiff -looking thinner than usual-was hailed by crowds crying "Viva! Viva...
...flag at the summit of Mount Everest on May 1. The Best in a Person. Manager of a Seattle store that sells mountaineering equipment, towering (6 ft. 5 in., 210 Ibs.) Jim Whittaker started climbing as a Boy Scout in the early 1940s. By the time he and his twin brother Lou were in high school, they were expert enough to join Seattle's Mountain Rescue Council. The twins spent college summers guiding footsore tourists up the steep slopes of 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier; in all, they scaled Rainier something like 70 times. Three years...
...effort to stave off the immune reaction, Brigham surgeons have done ten transplants after irradiating the recipients' whole body. But only one nonidentical twin survives. Now Surgeon Joseph E. Murray and his colleagues are relying on drugs alone to suppress the immune reaction, and all of their last four patients who received transplants are still living. So is one of an earlier group whose operation is now a year old. His kidney came from a cadaver...
...team headed by Dr. William R. Waddell also takes out both diseased kidneys first. But the Denver surgeons go farther: they remove the recipient's thymus and spleen as well, on the theory that these glands are headquarters for rejection mechanisms. The Denver group has made seven non-twin transplants in five months, and guardedly reports that so far, all the recipients but one are doing well...
...Chairman C. E. Woolman, 73, surprised his directors -and the entire U.S. airline industry-by announcing that Delta had ordered 15 Douglas DC-g short-range jetliners and had an option for 15 more. Delta thus became the world's first airline to order the $3,000,000 twin-engine plane that Douglas Aircraft will build to compete with British Aircraft Corp.'s One-Eleven, a short-range jetliner that will fly this summer. First DC-g deliveries will...