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...vital organs, notably the lungs. So, Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. suggested, it would be a good thing to transplant at least one lung, or a large part of it, along with a heart. Nine transplants of lungs, or lobes of lungs, have failed. The tenth, performed a fortnight ago by Dr. Arthur Beall of Dr. Michael DeBakey's team in Houston, was doing well last week...
...this has helped to sell his poetry. Selected Poems 1956-1968, published months ago, has sold more than 20,000 copies. Sales for the average collection rarely hit one-tenth that figure...
...learned anything, we don't know anything, we don't have anything, we don't give anything, we can't do anything, we don't sell anything, we don't help, we don't understand, we don't betray." The tenth was printed in large letters: "We will not forget anything." The "commandments" proved to be captive Czechoslovakia's secret weapon against the Russian invaders...
...ballroom of the Brussels Hilton, with a lot of U.S. and Belgian officials and all 109 members of the New York Philharmonic Symphony invited. The musicians were not to supply the dance music; they were co-celebrators. The gifts included an original edition of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony and a home stereo installation. Among the decorations: three 100-lb. sculptures of musicians carved in butter...
...biggest quarter-horse race of all is the annual Ail-American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. Come Labor Day, some 10,000 bona fide and drugstore cowboys-along with doctors, lawyers and oil-rich Indian chiefs-will turn out to see the tenth running of the 400-yard event billed as the "World's Richest Horse Race." Prize money for this year's Futurity is $615,000, nearly four times the size of the purse offered at the Kentucky Derby...