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...enormous weight of statistical evidence linking lung cancer with heavy smoking can no longer be refuted. A majority of manufacturers either oppose or ignore the problem." These words were spoken last week, not by a scientist or antismoking crusader, but by Patrick O'Neil-Dunne, 50, technical director of Rothmans of Pall Mall, British cigarette maker. A Rothmans press release was even stronger: "The link has been established beyond all reasonable doubt...
Died. Lieut. General Claire Lee Chennault, U.S.A. (ret.), 67, fighter pilot; of lung cancer; in New Orleans...
...method of bypassing the right side of the heart in patients with certain kinds of defects. These may be in the heart itself and in the adjacent great vessels, and of a type that defies repair even when the heart is laid open with the aid of a heart-lung machine. Dr. William W. L. Glenn's case is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...Glenn's team at Yale School of Medicine began experimental operations with a little black and white mongrel. Of the two great veins carrying blood back to the heart, they tied off the upper one and diverted its flow directly into the pulmonary artery leading to the right lung-thus bypassing the right side of the heart. The dog got along fine. When Kent Murray, now seven, entered the hospital last February, Dr. Glenn was ready to try the technique on a human patient...
That warning delivered, Mme. Chiang flew off to New Orleans to see an old friend and fellow freedom fighter whose sentiments were similar: Major General Claire Lee Chennault, 67, the old commander of the Flying Tigers, who is now fighting a tough battle against lung cancer in Ochsner Foundation Hospital. "I can't talk very well," said Chennault, sitting on the edge of his hospital bed. Said Mme. Chiang with a smile: "Well, you always talked too much anyway. I want to do the talking this time." And she added a final word to the old Flying Tiger that...