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...could taste snot in my mouth." For some there was an irritating sense of disconnection, a feeling that while their pasts were being microscopically examined, they were wasting their present lives and shortchanging their futures. "Once someone gave me a CRIMSON," one boy said, "and I was panic-stricken at the thought of all the time I was losing and all the things I was missing...
...since copied with exponential zeal. Despite its title, which suggests a kinship with General Motors or IBM, the Carnegie Corporation pursues no profits and pays no taxes. It was one of the first of the philanthropic foundations that have multiplied throughout this century in a conscientious -and sometimes conscience-stricken-effort by great wealth to live up to its noncommercial responsibilities...
...case of Mike Kasperak differed from that of other transplant patients in the underlying cause of his heart disease. Kasperak, 54, was stricken with a severe viral inflammation of the heart (viral myocarditis) ten years ago. Recently the inflammation had not been active, but the heart had become enlarged, more scarred and fibrous. Kasperak (pronounced Ka-spair-ak) quit his job as a Cleveland steelworker and retired to East Palo Alto, Calif. After a November episode of heart failure, he was admitted to Stanford Medical Center on Jan. 5, in desperate plight. When Kasperak asked his wife, Feme, what...
...L.B.J., he seemed less than panic-stricken. Whoever the Democratic candidate may be in 1968, said the President with supreme self-confidence, "I fully intend to support...
...stitches as a suitor soon gagged on his wit as a wife. When her father took him into his brokerage office, watching the tape made him physically dizzy, and the securities he recommended for widows and orphans soon became known as "laughing stocks." When he grins into his stricken father's oxygen tent and says, "My God! You must have a strong heart to stand all this," it is a bravely joshing effort to keep mortality...