Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which were made by threading plastic tubes through arm veins and into Betty's heart had revealed most of nature's errors. Even so, Surgeon Frank Gerbode was in for a surprise. When he opened her chest to make connections for routing her circulation through a heart-lung machine, instead of finding two great veins returning used blood to the heart, he discovered an extra vena cava...
...hour marathon for him and his three assistant surgeons. With the heart exposed (see diagram), Dr. Gerbode stripped away part of its outer sac (pericardium) for later use. Next he sewed up the ductus arteriosus where it joined the pulmonary artery. Then, with his patient connected to the heart-lung pump, he set its heat-exchanger to chill Mrs. Vanella's blood to 68° F., to reduce the brain's oxygen demands...
Meanwhile, the wall posters of Peking kept up their continuous denunciations of once venerated Red Chinese notables. Latest targets of abuse: Old Warriors Chu Teh, 81, and Ho Lung, 70, Veterans of the Long March and (with Lin Piao) leaders of the Eighth Route Army during China's civil war. Both were charged with "counterrevolutionary activity." If men of such formidable stature are indeed lining up against Mao, it is clear that the battle for Red China is far from over...
...illness has now been isolated and identified by the Army Surgeon General's office. Known as melioidosis, it was first discovered in Southeast Asia in 1911, but it is practically brand-new to Americans. Though some of its symptoms (cough, fever, weight loss, chest pain and spotting on lung X rays) are similar to those of tuberculosis, it is an entirely unrelated illness. Caused by bacteria of the Pseudomonas family, which grow easily in the moist soil of Southeast Asia, melioidosis develops after invasion of the system through open wounds, the mouth or the nose. One helicopter crew chief...
...President at the 1960 convention, later backed Bobby for U.S. Senator, but lost his own congressional seat to a Reform Democrat in 1964 and spent his last years petulantly flailing away at the "amateurs," "stiffs" and "Johnny-come-late-lies" who were wresting party control from him; of lung cancer; in the Bronx...