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...Fearsome Specter. More drastic were the objections of a few eminent cardiologists at the San Francisco meeting. New Orleans' Dr. George E. Burch, the college's new president, joined Los Angeles' Dr. Eliot Corday and Manhattan's Dr. Simon Dack in calling for at least a three-month moratorium on heart transplants. The college's outgoing president, Philadelphia's Dr. William Likoff, announced a conference of leading physicians, lawyers and theologians, to be held late this month in Bethesda, Md., to discuss the legal, ethical and practical aspects of transplants. And then there...
...often reversible-as is proved countless times every day by first-aid squads and lifeguards as well as doctors. The surgeon wants the donor's heart as fresh as possible, before lack of oxygen causes deterioration or damage-that is, within minutes of death. This has raised the specter of surgeons' becoming not only corpse snatchers but, even worse, of encouraging people to become corpses. The question remains: Where should the line be drawn between those to be resuscitated and those...
...spirit of factionalism is a clear danger to the cohesion of the Atlantic community," said Peterson. "At the very best, its projection into the future implies a slowdown in the economic growth rate of the free world and a particular slowdown in continental Europe. At worst, it raises the specter of accelerating restrictions on capital flow and along with it those notorious handmaidens of capital control: tariff walls, trade wars and isolationist trade blocs. While these projected consequences have unpleasant economic results, the political reverberations could be awesome. We are marching steadily toward a dangerous confrontation between the rich...
Republican Candidate Arlen Specter, 37, district attorney and onetime liberal Democrat, ran a cautious campaign. Heeding Pollster E. John Bucci, who gave him a 2-to-1 edge at the outset of the campaign, he fought a defensive battle to keep Tate from eroding that margin. Specter, who is Jewish, refused to take a stand on a bill that would divert $26 million in state cigarette taxes to Catholic schools, and Tate-tirelessly proclaiming his card-carrying membership in the city's 400,000-strong Catholic voting bloc-blew sanctified smoke rings around...
Olivier is malignantly and magnificently feral, dangerous precisely because he is a wounded animal clawing at the specter of death. One waits for the Olivier howl, and it comes-but not as the inhuman scream of the blinded Oedipus, or as his trumpet call to glory in Henry V: "God for Harry, England, and St. George!" In words charged with pain and hurtling toward frenzy, Olivier vengefully announces that he wants a divorce in order to "unite my destiny with that of a woman who together with devotion to her husband will also bring into this household youth...