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Everett C. Thomas, 47, a Phoenix, Ariz., accountant, was in St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston waiting for Dr. Denton A. Cooley to replace three valves in his heart, all damaged by rheumatic fever beginning 15 years ago. A donor heart became available after Kathleen Martin, 15, shot herself in the head during a quarrel with her 18-year-old husband. By extraordinary coincidence, Dr. Cooley had operated on her in 1962 because a narrowing of her aorta was restricting the outflow from her heart, which was becoming enlarged to meet its extra work load...
...mentioned Judge Cooley's memorable phrase (1888) that there is "the right to be let alone." Implicit in this is the right to live and the right to die. There is also the opposite right, to communicate. The individual's right to be let alone conflicts with the advancement of that part of society which is based upon scientific research. The development of science requires reasonable freedom for the investigator; at the same time a healthy society imposes restraints on him for the sake of the individual. Thus tension exists between society and scientific man. "This tension between society...
Passenger George Brokaw is alive because he remembered instructions on a small card on the back of the next seat and tucked his head between his knees when he saw sparks from the Convair's nose. "I thought we were coming in for a normal landing," said Robert Cooley, who awoke 200 ft. from the debris. "I sure hate to land in Cincinnati," remarked Stewardess Eleanor Kurtock, a survivor, seconds before the airliner took its final plunge-7,050 ft. short of the airport's North-South Runway...
...nation under Executive Committee Chairman Ransom M. Cook, 68, who gave up the chairmanship last fall, and current Chairman H. Stephen Chase, 64. When the two retire-Cook at year's end, Chase next May-Wells Fargo's reins will go to Arbuckle, 55, and Richard P. Cooley, who was appointed president and chief executive officer last November at the lean...
...wonder if Letter Writer George W. Cooley, commenting on Barbra Streisand [Feb. 18], realizes that a crepe suzette is nothing more than a degenerate blintz...