Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Frank Lausche was mayor of Cleveland in the early '40s, he sculpted his political totem in the form of a mugwump and named it antiboss. Through five terms as Governor and two as U.S. Senator, the conservative-minded Democrat was well served by his cult of independence, although party leaders from the White House to the Ohio state committee were frequently and understandably distressed...
...cause of his heart disease. Kasperak, 54, was stricken with a severe viral inflammation of the heart (viral myocarditis) ten years ago. Recently the inflammation had not been active, but the heart had become enlarged, more scarred and fibrous. Kasperak (pronounced Ka-spair-ak) quit his job as a Cleveland steelworker and retired to East Palo Alto, Calif. After a November episode of heart failure, he was admitted to Stanford Medical Center on Jan. 5, in desperate plight. When Kasperak asked his wife, Feme, what she thought about a transplant, she gave what has fast become the standard answer...
...oldest of these, pioneered 30 years ago by Cleveland Surgeon Claude S. Beck, involves opening the heart sac and scratching the heart's surface, so that in self-defense it builds up an increased blood supply. A second technique devised by Montreal's Dr. Arthur Vineberg requires ihe freeing of minor arteries in the chest and implanting these in the heart muscle.* More radical is the removal of a pie-cut wedge of damaged heart, after which the edges of healthy muscle are stitched together. There are, in addition, several methods of reaming atherosclerotic plugs from coronary arteries...
...patients. But until recently, a major difficulty has been for the surgeon to determine in advance where and how big the obstruction was, and so decide how to treat it. That has now been overcome by improved techniques for X-raying the heart's arteries, developed at the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. F. Mason Sones Jr. Relying on these, two of the Clinic's surgeons, Dr. Donald B. Effler and Dr. Rene Favaloro, have performed 51 operations of a new and promising type. They cut out the diseased segment of the coronary artery itself. Then they replace...
...plans to resign at the end of the 1969 season because of his killing schedule, likens himself to "a 27-inning pitcher" with no relief in the bullpen. Like Boston, New York and Chicago are also in the market for new music directors, and the conductors in Philadelphia and Cleveland-Eugene Ormandy and George Szell-are both over...