Barnard implants chimpanzee heart in patient in Cape Town
UPI reports heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard performed a four hour procedure at Groote Schuur hospital implanting a chimpanzee heart into a 60 year old patient who was said to be doing well. The operation follows a prior baboon heart attempt and uses a piggyback graft to keep both hearts functioning as a bridge to a suitable human donor.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Barnard
Jacques Losman
Groote ‘Schuur
Nation enjoys calm cool weather apart from East Coast showers
United Press reports most of the nation experienced cool and clear to cloudy conditions with a broad high pressure pattern. A low pressure system off the Carolinas brought scattered showers and thunderstorms but rainfall remained light and isolated.
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United Press Information
Carolinas
Hastings appoints Faye Mullen to 1st Ward seat
Hastings Nebraska United Press International reports Faye Mullen, 44, nominated by Mayor Robert Allen, appointed to the late Henry Hoffmans’ 1st Ward council seat. She serves until the 1978 general election and is noted as Nebraska’s first Black woman on a city council. Mullen heads Hastings Head Start and is active in local civic groups. Weather notes report light precipitation, cool to cold temps, and patchy frost, with North Carolina snow flurries. China eyeing electric car industry target 20,000 units yearly, price under $2,000.
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Hastings
Neb
UPI
Faye Mullen
1St Ward
Henry Hoffmans
Miss Mullen
Robert Allen
Dave Chambers
Nebraska League of Municipalities
Nebraska
National Weather Service
Pacific Northwest
California
Upper
Great Lakes
New Orleans
Alabama
Georgia
NWS
North Carolina
Republic of China
Shu
National Science Council
U.S
Workers warned about DBCP danger, testicular damage alleged
In San Francisco UPI reports Dow Chemical and Shell faced criticism for not warning workers about DBCP risks. Hearing details claim DBCP exposure caused sterility in 90 workers at three plants and testicular cancer in one. Officials cite evolving data from UC, NCI and EPA. critics say duty to warn existed.
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San Francisco
UPI
Dow Chemical
Shell
Bering
Donald Vial
California
University of California
National Cancer Institute
Environmental Protection Agency
Etey Blair
Dow
Peter Weiner
Vail
Howard Kusnetz
Occidental Chemical
DBCP
Weiner
Photographic Exhibit on Brule Sioux Opens at Kearney
A Rosebud Sioux life exhibit titled Crying for a Vision 1886 1976 opens Monday at Kearney State College. The showcase features the collective work of John A. Anderson Father Eugene Buechel and Father Dona Doll who lived and worked among the Brule Sioux on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
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Kearney, Neb
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England
Columbus, Nebraska
Brule Sioux
U.S. 30 Center
Pittway
Honeywell
Kidde
Ivan
O-Savea
Tempogge
Tempog
Alhambra
Tangiers
Johnson
Fea
Tempoefe
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