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...Representative Richard Roudebush by only 4283 votes. In both cases, the victories were unexpected. Hartke's bag of surprises may have run out this year, however. In 18 years as a Senator he has failed to construct a solid base of support, and this severely hampers his ability to withstand the strong challenge of Republican candidate Richard G. Lugar, former mayor of Indianapolis...
Rapaport notes that some of the early kidney transplant recipients, including Riteris, were in fact also irradiated. But in most cases the technique proved unreliable-in part because of uncertainties about how much X-ray dosage the body could withstand-and was thus abandoned. Rapaport believes, however, that his dog experiments now indicate that these problems could be solved, and that irradiation, plus bone-marrow reconstitution, may eventually offer a way of eliminating troublesome immunosuppressive drug therapy in human transplant recipients as well...
...wine, and averages a healthy eight hours of sleep each night. Far from taxing his energies, the strenuous campaign seems to have invigorated him. Although he is extraordinarily self-disciplined, he also has been suspected of being somewhat lazy, so his aides were pleasantly surprised at his ability to withstand the punishing physical demands of the campaign and his willingness to devote long hours to speechmaking and delegate wooing. Says Chief of Staff Mike Deaver: "The campaign has aroused his competitive instincts...
...finally the Moro government made its exit. "I have tried to avoid an alarming pause in the administration of power," said Moro, adding that he could no longer withstand the opposition he received. Without even bothering to call the confidence vote-defeat was, after all, a certainty-the Premier held a crisp last meeting with his Cabinet, then set off in his blue Alfa Romeo to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale Palace. There Moro requested the showdown that he had maneuvered for weeks to avoid and that he had called "not our choice...
...Formula Ford is a streamlined fiberglass beast, housing a 100-horsepower Ford Cortina engine inside a 13-foot-long frame. Capable of averaging speeds of over 90 mph, it is built to withstand the sharp turns and hills that distinguish the road racing course from the banked ovals of the stock-car loop...