Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least four early transplant patients who had received kidneys from donors with cancer later developed cancer themselves. Two of the four, operated on by a team headed by Dr. Richard E. Wilson, died as a result. A third died of complications following surgery. The fourth recipient, a 38-year-old father of ten, survived, further proving that the body's immunological processes may cast out cancerous tissue in the same way that they reject any transplanted tissue when immunosuppressive drugs are not used...
...Wilson and his colleagues performed a second transplant on Palazola in November 1966. This time the donor was his mother. Last week the doctors reported that "he had returned to full daily activity and has remained free of cancer...
...business leaders, the I.R.C. smacks of "back door nationalization," under which the government could wind up with a dominant voice in the new industrial combines that it fosters. In fact, the I.R.C.'s own managing director, Merchant Banker Ronald Grierson, made no secret of his growing distaste for Wilson's interventionist economic policies, finally quit his post last October...
...effort to encourage the unprecedented wave of corporate mergers now sweeping the country, Harold Wilson's Labor government has acted on the belief that Britain can best compete in world markets with bigger, more efficient companies. Wilson's detractors are not so sure. And they have been particularly suspicious of the Industrial Reorganization Corporation, a quasi-governmental group that has produced more than its share of bickering in its role as Britain's official corporate marriage broker...
While that function can involve a variety of approaches, Villiers sees mergers between the country's many "fractionated companies" as the best way to shore up British industry. Demonstrating the importance it attaches to that mission, Wilson's government has set Villiers' salary at $48,000 a year, which makes him better paid than any of the country's Cabinet ministers-including Wilson himself...