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...days, Mrs. Goodfellow was kept in sterile isolation: the danger of infection had increased enormously because Mrs. Goodfellow's defenses against it had been weakened by the immunosuppressive drugs, Imuran and prednisone, that the doctors had given her to increase the likelihood that the liver graft would "take" instead of being rejected. Last week she was well enough to take a ride outside the hospital, but the crucial time, determining whether her system will accept or reject her grafted liver, is not likely to come until early in November...
...Tory Establishment will echo to some of the fiercest infighting in memory. At week's end Hailsham was the delegates' hero, and had already been offered four constituencies by their obliging members, but he irritated many parliamentary leaders by his bulldozer tactics. Moreover, there is little likelihood that Hailsham will be able to divest himself of his title and be elected for two months; at week's end the London bookies were laying 7 to 4 against his becoming Prime Minister. Maudling (6 to 1 against), who appeared doubtful that the Tories can win in any case...
...Thomas Seymour '64, chairman of the HCUA and head of the parietals committee, had told the Council that "there is a fair likelihood that 12 o'clock parietals on Friday nights before football games could be gained...
There seemed slight likelihood of a smash political success. The speech was scheduled for Monday, a stay-at-home night most everywhere. The scene was to be Dodger Stadium (more popularly known as Chavez Ravine) - yet every properly baseball-batty Angeleno should have been glued to a television set watching the opening game of the showdown series between the Dodgers and the Cardinals in St. Louis. Thus, organizers of the Barry Goldwater rally had been having Technicolor night mares of rows of pink, aqua and maize stadium seats - all empty...
...watertight separation of executive, judicial and legislative powers* in Britain's unwritten constitution, the disquieting implication to many Britons was that, in its embarrassment over the Profumo scandal, the government had exerted extraordinary pressure to put Ward behind bars. If such suspicions are unfair, there was little likelihood that they would ever be fully investigated, let alone refuted...