Word: lillehei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absence of injured Carl Biello at 134 forced Harvard to gamble with 126-pound freshman Bill Haley in Biello's spot and freshman Mitch Silverman at 126. Haley lost a close match to Cornell's Kevin Lillehei, 3-2, and squandered a lead against UMass to lose again, 7-5. Silverman looked weak and lost decisions to Cornell and UMass by ten-point margins...
...performed only once before, and then unsuccessfully: transplantation of a heart and two lungs. Then a 50-year-old woman was admitted after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. Her blood-cell types were a fairly good match with Falk's. As she lay dying, Surgeon-in-Chief C. Walton Lillehei alerted his team. They spent Christmas morning transplanting her heart and lungs, including both bronchi and the lower third of the windpipe. Because the surgical procedures required were more difficult than those for heart transplants, the operation took 3½ hours...