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...right to push a hypodermic needle into the bag of waters, why not keep going and push it into the fetus' abdomen? At National Women's Hospital in Auckland, he did just that. Through the bore of the heavy-gauge needle, he then inserted a thin plastic tube. And through this he injected red cells, Rh-negative like the mother's, to replace the baby's own Rh-positive cells, which were being destroyed. A fetus can absorb blood cells directly from its abdominal cavity...
...massive, virtually total exchange transfusion. But how to give it? In one case, Dr. Adamsons boldly cut through the mother's abdominal wall and enough of the uterus to expose the fetus' abdomen and one leg. He cut into the fetus' groin and put a plastic catheter in the femoral artery. Through this tube he withdrew much of the baby's blood and replaced it with donor blood. Astonishingly, this radical surgery did not kill the fetus. But when the mother later went into labor, the baby was too premature to survive...
...This is the world's greatest picture from the world's greatest book," says the reigning flack, as he watches 3,500 body-tanned extras toiling with baskets of plastic bricks up the staircases and setbacks of the Tower of Babel on the set south of Rome. "Here," says the associate producer, "you have the first love story, the first sin, the first murder, the first boat and the first skyscraper." "All these fantastic stories," marvels the prime mover of all, Italian Producer Dino de Laurentiis, "it would be incredible if it weren't the Bible...
...Swift books, fresh Beluga caviar, and 900 Macy's private-label items, the last at prices 10% to 15% below national brands. Macy's has a shop that sells nothing but candles, another devoted solely to Oriental rugs, still others dealing only in antiques or plastic flowers. It also has its own prescription drugstore, hardware and auto-accessories shops, theater club, travel agent, and a jewelry store watched over by a plainclothes detective. In its wine shop, which has its own wine tasters, $28.35 magnums of 1955 Taittinger Blanc de Blancs champagne mingle with 99? California sherry...
...Macy's own brands) through tests of fire, water, high pressure and simulated wear. Recently the testers ordered Macy's advertising department not to call a raincoat "water-resistant" because it failed to withstand a heavy shower for 21 minutes, and not to call a plastic Christmas tree "fireproof," because it melted when exposed to flame...