Word: denver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young Peoples Socialist League Denver...
...Anne Campbell of Lakewood was only five when she was found to have a heart murmur. Doctors thought little of it, as such murmurs often disappear without treatment. But as Ro Anne grew, she had less and less energy. Diagnostic studies in 1959 at Denver's National Jewish Hospital showed that her heart's left ventricle had become enlarged by having to pump against the resistance of a narrowed aorta. She was too ill for an operation then. Even more disturbing, the doctors diagnosed Ro Anne's aortic abnormality as a form in which the great artery...
...history: first a heart murmur, then gradually failing strength until an operation seemed unavoidable. But to the surgeons who opened her chest two years ago, her aortic narrowing seemed inoperable. Last summer Patricia went to Dr. Arthur E. Prevedel, 44, who put her into Children's Hospital in Denver. He worked plastic tubes through arm veins into both sides of her heart, injected a radiopaque dye and took X rays to get a clear picture of her narrowed aorta. Her operation differed only in technical details from Ro Anne's. Dr. Prevedel sewed in a similar Teflon patch...
...Earlier beneficiaries: Brown, Denver, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Stanford. The 29 colleges that have got grants range from Amherst to Whitman...
...reality. "The two top teams in this league," boasts Houston Quarterback George Blanda, "are strong enough to take on anybody in the Nation al Football League, except maybe the Green Bay Packers." Most A.F.L. coaches admit that this is baloney. "Lord, they'd all massacre us," says Denver's Jack Faulkner. But there is one contest in which the fledgling pro league is a match for its older rival : bidding for the services of this year's graduating college stars. Last week the A.F.L. was throwing money around with such hearty abandon - and picking up so much...