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...stopped during the delicate operation. Only then did Barnard discover how desperate his condition had been: "His left ventricle was nothing but a bag of fibrous tissue." Barnard cut away 45% of this diseased heart muscle, partly to make room for the implant. He placed the donor heart piggyback on Taylor's own, left side to left side, and cut silver-dollar-size holes in the left atrium (upper chamber) of each. Then he stitched the two hearts together and shunted the aorta from the donor heart into Taylor's aorta...
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...Under HUD's formula the block grant will be equivalent to the initial categorical grant received by the City agency in the past," the spokesman said yesterday. "But this formula does not make any provision for the secondary 'Piggyback' grants that agencies have been so dependent...
...example, the spokesman cited the Model Cities Community Learning Program, which began with an initial grant of $75,000 and gained an additional $250,000 when administrators solicited "piggyback funds...
Under the formula for the Better Communities Act the City would be guaranteed the $75,000, but no compensation will be made for the quarter of a million in HEW "piggyback funds," the spokesman said...