Christmas Charity Drives Help Aiken Families this Season
Three Aiken County groups Salvation Army Valley Empty Stocking Fund and Aiken Jaycees sponsor Christmas aid. Applicants must apply themselves at 322 Gayle Ave NW between now and Dec 8 for Salvation Army. Dec 17 for Empty Stocking Fund. Jaycees collecting funds for shopping tour. Donations accepted by mail to local POs. Contributors named in The Aiken Standard unless anonymous.
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Aiken County
Salvation Army
Valley Empty Stocking Fund
Aiken Jaycees
Gayle Ave
N.W
P.O
Aiken
Clearwater
Langley
Graniteville
Grorking
P.O. Box
Aiken Standard
Christmas Cheer Fund
Doctors Implant Artificial Heart in First Permanent Replacement
Surgeons at University of Utah Medical Center replaced a failing heart with a polyurethane mechanical device in a high risk operation on 61 year old Barney B. Clark of Federal Way Washington. The team led by Dr William DeVries reported the patient sustained by the new heart and ongoing monitoring in intensive care. Clark previously suffered incurable heart disease with irregular rhythms and had been using a heart lung machine during the procedure.
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Salt Lake City
Barney B. Clark
University of Utah Medical Center
Mark Sands
Clark
Surbuban
Seattle
John Dwan
Chase Peterson
Peterson
University
Health Sciences
Reagan Attacks Counterfeit Revolutionaries in Latin Trip
President Reagan denounced counterfeit revolutionaries in Central America and urged closer U S Brazil economic ties in Sao Paulo. He highlighted a $1 2 billion loan to Brazil and sugar quota relief as part of broader East West themes during a visit that stressed economic cooperation and regional stability. He praised the Brasilia embassy staff before departing for Sao Paulo.
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Brasilia
Brazil
Reagan
Central America
United States
U.S
Latin America
Sao Paulo
White House
Soviet Union
Cuba
Americas
Atomic Fire Began 40 Years Ago In Chicago
On December 2, 1942, American and refugee European scientists started a chain reaction in a squash court on the University of Chicago campus. The piece traces the early physics and key figures from Becquerel to Bohr and Fermi, noting how the event shaped fear and power debates through the decades.
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Chicago
Europe
United States
Hitler
University of Chicago
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Henri Becquerel
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Snoopy
Abby Erma Bombeck
Timmy Houston
Aiken Community Playhouse
Sands
Federal Way
Wash
Stephen K. Clark
William DeVries
Food and Drug Administration
Three Mile Island
Italy
Enrico Fermi
Fermi
France
Irene Joliet-Curie
Pierre and
Marie
Einstein
Mussolini
Bohr
Albert Einstein
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