Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer as much lung cancer...
...sampling of current smokers shows that as recently as the 1930s, only one-third as many girls as boys started smoking before they were 15; this is significant because disease and death rates, notably for lung cancer, are related to duration of smoking. All three factors -age of starting, inhalation habits and number of cigarettes smoked-said Dr. Hammond, tend to go together: a boy or a girl who starts smoking before age 15 is more likely to become a heavy smoker and deep inhaler...
...does in the di rection opposite to that of the blood flow to reduce the risk of clotting, may have to be combined with the graft of a patch into the side of the diseased artery to restore its full bore. Under any circumstances, he said, the heart-lung machine is needed during the operation, and the surgeon has to use "microsurgical instruments, magnifying lenses, tiny sutures and great care." Of six Santa Monica patients followed for up to three years, five have derived major benefit from the procedure...
...major medical centers told the College of Cardiology about new techniques based on the Vineberg principle but using different vessels to carry blood to the heart muscle. Cleveland's Dr. Earle B. Kay reported that he and Dr. Akio Suzuki cut out a piece of the left lung's arterial network with "a multitude of side branches," and sew the "trunk" end into the descending aorta. Then they implant the smaller branches in the heart muscle. The advantage of this method, which has so far been successful in four out of six patients, said Dr. Kay, is that...
Died. Sophie Tucker, 79, the "last of the Red-Hot Mamas"; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Buxom, brassy and schmalzy, she toured the whole of show biz, breaking into vaudeville at 20, shimmying her way into Cole Porter's 1938 Broadway hit Leave It to Me and Hollywood's Honky Tonk, but mostly working the cabaret circuit, where for 50 years she made them hum along with Blue Skies, grow misty-eyed with Some of These Days, and roar over her gravelly Nobody Loves a Fat Girl, But Oh How a Fat Girl Can Love! "Red-Hot Mamas...