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Good Tissue Match. Last week surgeons were astonished to learn that in the grimy Belgian city of Ghent (pop. 235,000), a lung transplant had been performed in utmost secrecy more than three months ago and the recipient was still doing well. Alois Vereecken, 23, a metalworker, received the lung from an unidentified donor on Nov. 14 at the hands of a five-man surgery team headed by Professor Fritz Derom. Patient Vereecken had developed severe silicosis in both lungs...
Nixon, of course, was assiduously wooing the opposition that controls Capitol Hill. In a display of bipartisan jocularity, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield assured Nixon that the Democrats would do their utmost to contribute to the Administration's success...
...climaxed by a rigid superstoical Code of Conduct promulgated by President Eisenhower in 1955. Still in force technically, it requires every P.O.W. to resist his captors, to try to escape and help others escape, to reveal nothing beyond name, rank, number and date of birth-all "to the utmost of my ability...
...universe. This assumption, however, goes entirely against the grain of Mr. Steinbeck's philosophy, which was based upon an intense, pantheistic love of nature, and led him to "animalize" his characters in order that he might free them from their sanitized, alienated existence and place them with utmost dignity within the grand scheme of the universe...
...Harvard chapter of the NEW UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE (a national organization of liberal and radical faculty and graduate students) urges the acceptance of Col. Pell's challenge by abolishing ROTC at Harvard. We hope to convince the Harvard community that it is a political decision of the utmost gravity to maintain or eliminate ROTC. This choice should be made on the basis of accurate information and lengthy, patient discussion of the issues...