Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chieh-sheng, daughter of famed Marshal Ho Lung by one of his early wives (he has been married nine times), achieved revolutionary fame by denouncing her father as a "despicable swine." She is now an important member of the cultural cadre, boasts that she is closer to Mao than to her own parents...
Died. Franchot Tone, 63, longtime movie star whose off-camera tiffs sometimes overshadowed his considerable acting ability; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Suave son of a wealthy industrialist, Tone moved quickly from lead roles on Broadway to Hollywood, where he made 53 films, including Mutiny on the Bounty and Advise and Consent. His personal life was littered with four broken marriages and several fights, one of which-against Bit Actor Tom Neal over the affections of Tone's third wife, Barbara Payton, in 1951 -left him with a battered face that required plastic surgery...
...Lung Failures. With some 2,000 kidney, 30 liver and more than 40 heart grafts now logged in surgery's annals, the second international congress of the Transplantation Society turned its attention to two main problems: how to extend the variety of transplantable organs, and how to improve the survival chances of all grafts of whatever kind...
Most candidates for heart transplants have been ill so long that they have suffered deterioration of many other vital organs, notably the lungs. So, Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. suggested, it would be a good thing to transplant at least one lung, or a large part of it, along with a heart. Nine transplants of lungs, or lobes of lungs, have failed. The tenth, performed a fortnight ago by Dr. Arthur Beall of Dr. Michael DeBakey's team in Houston, was doing well last week...
...started, some of them found breathing so difficult that all physical activity was an arduous chore. But during the gradual exercise buildup, they all showed improvement. Their hearts now function more efficiently. Work has become easier, and their bodies require less oxygen for a given task, presumably because their lung tissue has been stimulated to greater efficiency. Bass does not recommend his treatment for all of the 400,000 Americans troubled by emphysema, many of whom have other serious disorders. His patients, however, have no such compunctions. Like 74-year-old Dudley Pell, who was on the verge of quitting...