Man-made heart swap; widow donates heart
HOUSTON (UPI) - A dying Illinois man, kept alive for 63 hours by the first man-made heart ever used in a human, yesterday received the healthy heart of a Massachusetts widow who was flown in a limping plane halfway across the nation on a medical mission of mercy.
Denton A. Cooley, physician who performed medical science's first swap of an artificial heart for a human organ in the chest of man, said the patient, Haskell Karp, a 47-year-old Skokie, Ill., salesman, was in satisfactory condition.
"I am optimistic about the outcome," a grinning Cooley said of his 19th human heart transplant and the world's 124th such operation.
Four hours after yesterday's operation, Karp sat up in his hospital bed and talked to his wife.
Condition report
"His blood pressure is within normal limits and his cardiac output remains satisfactory," a hospital bulletin said.
Cooley, dressed in a white hospital frock over a red, white and blue tie, said the transplant was made possible because the American people "cared about a fellow human."
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"The cooperation showed how the whole country turns out to help save the life of one patient," Cooley said softly just hours after he stitched shut Karp's chest at Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
The donor was Mrs. Barbara Ewan, 40, of Lawrence, Mass., the mother of three daughters who permitted her heart to be used to save Karp's life. Mrs. Ewan suffered fatal brain damage before being flown to Houston. The damage was not the result of an injury but was caused by an undisclosed medical problem, doctors said.
"To know that he is still alive because he wants to live makes me happy," Mrs. Shirley Karp said of her husband. "As long as he has a normal heart I feel he has returned from the dead."
The plastic and Dacron heart placed in Karp's chest in a three-hour operation Friday kept him alive 63 hours. It was the first time a man-made device completely took over the human heart's functions of pumping and storing blood inside the body.
Temporary measure
The pioneering surgeon told a news conference after yesterday's operation that the artificial heart was used as a temporary measure to keep Karp alive until a human donor could be found.
PRAGUE (UPI) — Policemen and soldiers armed with submachine guns stood guard yesterday at the St. Wenceslas monument in Prague to prevent Czechoslovaks from decorating it with Easter flowers.
Police guard Czech saint
The soldiers and police officers removed several dozen bouquets placed at the monument over the weekend, fearful they might antagonize the Soviets. The statue depicting the patron saint of Bohemia astride a horse is located in St. Wenceslas Square and has become a symbol of resistance to Soviet domination.
Most of the flowers appeared to be offerings to the memory of St. Wenceslas and not signs of protest. One bunch, however, did bear a flag of Italy and the words "Italy with Czechoslovakia."
KU plans no protest
Plans for a nation-wide campus peace protest scheduled for April 12 have met with no apparent KU response, said Louis Wolfe of the Lawrence Peace Center.
Wolfe said he had heard of no plans to cooperate with the nation-wide demonstration to protest the Vietnam war.
The University of Iowa was the first state university to admit women on an equal basis with men.
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Nixon, Gov. Docking and Former President Lyndon Johnson.
Scattered throughout the limousines were an almost equal number of FBI and secret service.
The ceremony ended at noon, and with it, a sudden flurry of motion on both sides of the cordon.
During the ceremony, the public, which by that time had grown to an estimated 100,000 persons, was held back by a closely guarded rope barrier more than 200 vards from the library.
Members of the press began dashing for buses back to the press center to make last minute deadlines, spectators rushed to the chapel to snap thousands of photographs, military escort serens wailed as they led the dignitaries out of town.
People came, saw, left. The excitement was over. The famous faces were gone. The sightseers were out of film. Out of 100,000 faces, only a few bore the expression of sorrow, of loss. It had been a picnic, something to tell the grandchildren about.
Then came the maddening rush as the population of the town shrank from 100,000 back to 8,000. Cars jammed every possible avenue of egress.
Now the Army is gone, the spectators are gone, the press is gone. Abilene again is the quiet Kansas town Ike loved.
House introduces measure to name highway for Ike
TOPEKA (UPI) - A resolution was introduced yesterday night in the Kansas House of Representatives to ask Congress to name Interstate 70 Highway in honor of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
It notes that Eisenhower was the father of the interstate highway system; that I-70 skirts Abilene, Kan., the hometown and final resting place of the former president; and that the route from Washington runs toward Camp David, the presidential retreat that Eisenhower named.