Artificial Heart Passes Milestone in Patient Hope
Mrs. Karp pleads for a donor as her husband lies on life support after the artificial heart implantation. Doctors discuss improvements in valves and linings, Liotta and Cooley describe the device, its silastic exterior, and a portable pump that drives circulation. The patient’s fate hinges on available donor hearts and further transplant advances.
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Cooley
Domingo Liotta
Cordoba
Argentina
Liotta
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston
Sapporo
Japan
Newel France
St. Luke's
France
Debakey
33000 Car Workers Face Monday Layoff
Sterling Heights Michigan AP reports a body parts shortage from a struck stamping plant will force 33000 more layoffs Monday unless settlement is reached. By Friday 22500 hourly workers had been sent home after a wildcat strike began Wednesday.
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Sterling Heights
Mich
Detroit
Chrysler Corp
Wildcat
St. Louis
Newark
Del
Belvidere
Windsor
Ont
Easter Services Across Southern California Draw Thousands
Baritone Robert Burton opened the program with Were You There and The Lord s Prayer. Easter plans spanned Camp Pendleton, Forest Lawn Cypress, Garden Grove, Redondo Beach, Wilshire Temple, Hollywood Bowl, Mt. Rubidoux, Pasadena Rose Bowl, and Glendale gatherings. Passover begins with the first Wednesday after the vernal equinox, aligning with Easter dates.
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Robert Burton
Garden Grove
Redondo Beach
Salvation Army Band
Inglewood
Redondo Union High School
Veterans’ Park
Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Los Angeles
St. Basil’s Catholic Church
St. Basil’s
Hollywood Bowl
California
Turnpike sniper spree ends with double tragedy
A Le mans car with Missouri plates launches a one hour gun attack on turnpike traffic from the eastern gate through the Lancaster Lebanon Harrisburg area. The shooter killed his wife after pulling over, then killed himself. Dozens of injured motorists and a truck driver were treated. Witness Duncan Olmstead described the shooter targeting eastbound cars as he passed.
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Turnpike
Lancaster-Lebanon
Harrisburg East
Lambright
Saitta
Rosemarie
Richard
Victoria Cross
Park Forest
Ill
Melissa
Duncan Olmstead
Pleasantville
N.Y
Olmstead
Virginia
Canada to Declare 12 Mile Sea Limit
Canada unveiled plans to declare waters up to 12 miles off Atlantic and Pacific coasts off limits to foreign fishermen. Fisheries Minister Jack Davis said the measure would not affect the United States under a reciprocal arrangement, allowing U S and Canadian fishermen to fish within three miles of each other.
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Ottawa
Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
Jack Davis
United States
U.S
Pope Paul VI closes Holy Week with Easter Eve mass
Pope Paul VI led the Easter Vigil at St Peter's Basilica before thousands in Rome and foreign visitors. He spoke of a church in schism while stressing the victory over death with "Hallelujah" as the bells rang midnight across Rome's churches. A lamb was presented to the Pope by three Roman children.
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Donn J. Robertson
Leo J. Dulacki
Fifth Marine Division
Forest Lawn
Cypress
Anaheim Western High School
Vatican City
UPI
Paul VI
Chistiandom
St. Peters Basilica
Rome
Paolo Marella
St. Peters
Antonio Samore
The
Sacred Congregation For the Discipline of the Sacra
Week-Long British Air Strike Ends
About 1 100 BOAC pilots accepted a new wage contract ending a seven day walkout that halted the government airline. First London to New York flight planned. full service to return in three days. Strike cost an estimated 6 million dollars in lost revenue. Senior pilots now earn 16 200 to 20 400 annually versus 14 112 previously.
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London
BOAC
British Overseas Airways Corp
New York
Easter Dawn in Jerusalem Quiet Amid Tense Holy Week
In Jerusalem the Easter sunrise at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre proceeds with Latin Patriarch Alberto Gori declaring He is risen though the city is unusually sparse. Arab-Israeli tensions deter crowds as gunfire from Jordan targets a frontier settlement during Passover observances.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Holy City
Msgr
Alberto Gori
Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre
Jordan
Facts You Should Know About Diamonds
Lawson's Jewelers in Downtown Long Beach highlights diamonds as April's birthstone and the gem of all gems. The piece extols the diamond's brilliance, hardness, universal love symbol, and supposed associations with virtue and luck, urging inquiries at 250 Pine Ave Long Beach.
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Denny Foltz Lawson
Long Beach
Lawson's Ewelers
Pine Ave
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Chrysler
United Auto Workers Union
Orange County
Camp Pendleton Marine Base
Naval Academy Chanel
Lief Erickson
Mt. Rubidoux
Riverside
Ben Lewis
Carl Sererhmmar
Pacific Southwest Synod
Lutheran Church In America
Bill Glass
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Pasadena
Congress Hall
Glendale
Nicea
Donald Lambright
Lemans Auto
Missouri
Harrisburg Hospital
Vincent Saitta
South Farmingdale
Ernest R. Stevens
Elkhart
Ind
Stevens
Kim
Bertha
Nicholas de George
Media
Sheldon Sherman
Philadelphia
John Fittery
Elizabethtown
Dora Kramer
Lock Haven
Laura
Alexander
Marie
George A. Bonsell
Huntington Rd
Good Samaritan Hospital
Lebanon
Holy Spirit Hospital
Camp Hill
Pope
Jesus Christ
Scott's
Alamitos NE
Lakewood Blvd
Rosecrans Ave
Downey
Tralas
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