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...lower left chambers. Without such an operation, Mrs. Mauldin was not likely to live long. But the N.J.H. surgeons found they could not operate because Patient Mauldin would need transfusions during surgery, and she had rare, unmatchable blood: type A (common), but with a subfactor known as RL² (uncommon) and two other mysterious subfactors which, together, would destroy any blood that she might receive by transfusion. Reluctantly, the N.J.H. surgeons sent Lila Mauldin home...
Death today is uncommon, occurring in isolation from generally one of two causes--accidents, or what we consider some kind of probability error, an unlucky break which leaves the victim with incurable cancer. Although no American expects to live forever, an element of fatalistic thinking which marked men's attitudes in the past has disappeared in America. The inevitability of death is underplayed; however, this may be part of a larger attitude toward disbelief in the inevitability of anything--we have geared ourselves to a rapidly changing, technological en-environment in which literally any-can happen...
...review entitled "Veritas or Mishmash?" Boorstin attacked "the banality and intellectual timidity of the volume." He also criticized the book's "few vague themes" because they "express attitudes not uncommon nowadays among our self-conscious intellectuals" and "these attitudes can stultify our life...
Collies & Champions. There are 500,000 pedigreed bird dogs in the U.S.-silken-haired Irish, English and Gordon setters, springer spaniels (named for their ability to "spring" pheasants from thick brush), high-strung German Weimaraners and Dutch Griffons. Some hunters swear by collies and cockers, and it is not uncommon to find a German shepherd or even a great Dane ranging through the cornfields. But for speed, range, endurance and nose, no dog matches the pointer. A good pointer can scent a bird 100 yds. away. He will hold a quivering point for half an hour or more, and once...
Moving with uncommon dispatch, the 88th Congress last week...