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...enables a person, without the consent of next of kin, to bequeath parts or the whole of his body for research and transplant use. It represents three years of legislative work by the surgeons. It represents, too, a major breakthrough for heart, kidney, and liver transplant patients...
...Greece is "a crowned liberal democracy." The King is "the symbol of national unity." He will have power to appoint and dismiss Premiers, but may select and fire other Cabinet ministers only with the Premier's consent. He is commander in chief of the armed forces and appoints the chiefs of staff and the internal-security chief on recommendation of the Supreme National Defense Council. He may pardon prisoners on recommendation of a newly created Judicial Council...
...Color & Consent. It was a hot New Year's Day when Clive Haupt and his bride of three months went with friends to Fish Hoek Beach. Haupt played pickup rugby, then lay down to rest. Suddenly a friend called that Haupt was ill, with frothy blood coming from his mouth. From a local hospital, he was shuttled fast to the better-equipped Victoria Hospital, where doctors concluded that he had suffered a stroke-a massive brain hemorrhage. They saw little hope that he could survive. But since Haupt had apparently been fit, his heart was probably in good condition...
...even part Hottentot) that is classified as "Colored" under South Africa's race laws. Dr. Barnard asked Blaiberg whether he would object to receiving a Colored man's heart. No, replied the desperate patient-who, like Washkansky, happened to be Jewish. Then the surgeons had to get consent from Haupt's next of kin. His wife Dorothy collapsed when she was told he could not survive. To protect themselves, the doctors asked Haupt's mother. Widowed three years ago (her husband died of a stroke), she agreed to donate her son's heart...
Divorced. Jean-Paul Belmondo, 34, the French cinema's favorite boogeyman (Breathless, The Thief of Paris); and Elodie Belmondo, 31; by mutual consent; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Paris. He charged her with "a guilty relationship with a friend in Switzerland" and she accused him of "corporal relations with a well-known actress" (Ursula Andress' best notice to date...