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...heavyweight championship of the world 64 years ago from Jess Willard and lost it seven years later to Gene Tunney, but right up until the day he died last week, many still thought of Jack Dempsey as champion. And one could not think of Dempsey without thinking of Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange. Other athletes have survived to 87, but no other period in sport, and maybe not just in sport, has lingered so glamorously long. The '20s not only roared, they remained...
...device. The U.S. Government now spends $1.8 billion a year on Medicare assistance for the 60,000 Americans who require kidney dialysis. If Medicare were to be extended to artificial-heart patients, that could mean an added burden to tax payers of as much as $5.5 billion annually. Dr. Willard Gaylin, president of the Hastings Center, an institute just north of New York City for the study of biomedical ethics, points out that such patients might be a drain on the nation's health-care system throughout their lives. Says Gaylin: "We Americans like to think of ourselves...
...command a big job and big money at a private financial institution, rumors inevitably crop up that he will leave Washington. One now circulating among Chase Manhattan executives has Volcker as a strong candidate to become chairman of the bank, which has suffered a string of financial reversals since Willard Butcher succeeded David Rockefeller...
...shot to death by white policemen, one of whom has been indicted. Blacks were all the angrier that the policeman who killed Johnson was Hispanic, like 39% of the 1,039-person force. Only 17% of the city's policeman are black. Said Miami Urban League President T. Willard Fair: "Blacks already believe that Cubans have gotten preferential treatment at our expense...
...culture," says Dr. John Fletcher, assistant director of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, "but the trend seems to be that whoever gets the most publicity gets to live." After the Fiskes' example, there may be "an avalanche of similar cases," predicts Willard Gaylin, president of the Institute of Society, Ethics and Life Sciences at Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. But what happens when the press tires of the same old transplant story? Do latecomers lose...