Cape Town doctor dies after 19 months with new heart
Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 60, who received the world’s second heart transplant, died in Groote Schuur Hospital from heart failure linked to pneumonia and kidney failure. His wife said he feared death and had lived on borrowed time, scribbling a Khayyam quote before passing.
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Dr. Blaiberg
Cape Town
South Africa
UPD
Philip Blaiberg
Omar Khayyam
Blaiberg
Groote Schuur Hospital
Christiaan Barnard
Marius Barnaard
Christiaan
Blatberg
U S Forces Hit Foe Around Saigon In Heavy Operations
U S boats and helicopters with floodlights killed 41 Communist troops near Saigon as B52 bombers dropped 800 tons on the area. Nine raids occurred up to 100 miles north, with one strike near Song Be and Tay Ninh Province. Casualties included three U S Army helicopters shot down, 11 Americans killed or wounded in various engagements, and continued hits on Communist forces near Phu Cuong and the DMZ.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Song Be
U.S. Green Berets
Cambodia
Tay Ninh
U.S. Army
South Vietnam
Montgomery
A Shau
U.S. Navy
Phu Cuong
1St Air Cavalry Division
Phu Khuong
Hue
Duc Pho
Dmz
North
Rockpile
Artille
Camille Rages ashore with 190 mph winds devastates Mississippi Gulf Coast
Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi coast, bringing 190 mph winds and massive floods. Cities like Gulfport Biloxi Bay St. Louis and Waveland suffered extensive damage with hundreds of millions in losses. National Guard troops aided rescues and kept order as crews searched for survivors and counted casualties.
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Gulfport
Miss
Camille
Gulf Coast
National Guard
Bay St. Louis
Biloxi
Danny Guice
Ray Decell
Mississippi
John Bell Williams
Jackson
Gulfport-Biloxi
Camp Shelby
Hattiesburg
National
Coast Guard
Louisiana
Florida Panhandle
Mobile Weather Bureau
Ocean Springs
Mississippi River
Ng One Tao
Debbie
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Water Bureau
New Orleans
New Tax Bill Targets Deferred Compensation Plans
A pending tax reform bill would cap deferred compensation at ten thousand dollars a year for executives and tax any excess in the year earned rather than when received after retirement. The measure does not affect general pension plans and would require existing plans to convert by 1972. It also proposes a 50 percent ceiling on taxation of earned income, with current top rates at 70 percent.
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Washington
UPD
U.S
House
Ways and Means Committee
Five Day Boston Forecast Temperatures to Ease Into Cooler Days
Five day forecast for Boston shows average highs in upper 60s to low 70s in north and 70s in south, with overnight lows from 40s to 50s. Temperatures to trend cooler Tuesday and Wednesday, with rainfall under a quarter inch and scattered showers likely Friday and Saturday.
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Boston
UPD
U.S. Weather Bureau
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Foe
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Woodward
Winring Technicolor
Panavibion
Universal Newman Foreman
Flady Grighh
Ipi
Williamstown Theatre
Williamstown
Mass
Berkshire Eagle
Bennington
Gulf Cities
Gulfport Naval Base
Apalachicola
Fla
Red Cross
Mobile
Ala
Mississippi Highway Patrol
Pensacola
Dauphin Island
Pass Christian
THE
Bennington Banner
Nichols
Tom Giat
Ee AS
Siu Nae
Ela
Beneficial
Beneficial Finance System
Beneficial Finance Co
Main Street
Westinghouse
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
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