Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dolphin Lair, 21, a janitor whose father died of lung cancer, held a man hostage atop a Los Angeles skyscraper for 2½ hours to warn against the dangers of tobacco. Result: he gave up without a struggle...
Died. Bill Vaughan, 61, author of the Kansas City Star "Starbeams" column, syndicated as "Senator Soaper Says"; of lung cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. For 31 years, Vaughan filled his daily columns with 13 pithy paragraphs. Sample: "People we agree with are calm and enthusiastic; everybody else is apathetic and hysterical...
...only marginally better than the villages they left behind. Once one of the hemisphere's most beautiful cities, the capital is now one of the most blighted. Clouds of smoke from burning garbage, tortilla shops and public bathhouses-fortified by the rarefied oxygen at 7,347 ft.-make lung congestion almost epidemic and blot out the view of Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, the twin peaks between which Hernan Cortes advanced in 1519. Other urban areas-Guadalajara and Monterrey -are almost...
...elected, opponents have tried to undermine his administration. First, he says, it was the obstructionist international board, then the opposition of U.M.W. Vice President Mike Trbovich, who has been forced out of the fray by his own overheated charges about Communists in the Miller administration. Miller, 53, who has lungs ravaged by black-lung disease and a face scarred from World War II wounds, insists that he delivered on U.M.W. democracy with a new union constitution, rank-and-file veto power over contracts and a fat, three-year 54% wage-and-benefit increase negotiated in the last contract...
Telltale Symptoms. As a first step, he inoculated his guinea pigs with lung tissue from two victims of Legionnaires' disease. Within a day or so, the lab animals developed telltale symptoms: fever, lethargy, watery eyes. Then McDade injected material from their spleens into chick embryos, which also became infected, and died within six days...