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...meters, but to do this-my God! Equating it to running, it is doing the impossible." Said Bob Mathias, winner of the Olympic decathlon in 1948 and 1952: "It's spectacular. He has to have the sprinter's ability, plus the lung capacity and the stamina for the longer distances. He is just a super athlete...
Fujiwara, an associate professor at the Akita University School of Medicine in northern Japan, solved these problems in a sort of medical hat trick that is, as he puts it, "simplicity itself." Picking up cow lungs at local slaughterhouses, he scraped off their surfactant, rid it of most of its protein, modified it with the organic compounds, and put the resulting white powder into solution. That way, with a tube and syringe, he could propel it directly into an infant's air passages. To spread it over the lungs, he just moved his tiny patients about until the alveolar...
...surfactant substitutes remain to be seen. They point out that scientists have not yet unraveled the chemical structure of natural surfactants and thus cannot tell if there is any significant difference between the human and animal variety. Fujiwara acknowledges that much testing remains to be done before the cow-lung concoction achieves widespread use. He plans a large-scale clinical trial of the substance this summer...
DIED. Howard Dalton, 42, Washington State businessman; of lung cancer; in Seattle. After he learned of his disease in 1978, Dalton launched a campaign for legislation to waive the five-month waiting period required before terminally ill people can receive Social Security disability benefits; while the House is still considering the idea, the Senate passed the Dalton amendment...
DIED. Robert Ardrey, 71, dramatist and self-trained anthropologist whose works on man's origins and behavior, among them African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966) promoted popular interest in the once-obscure field that he made his specialty; of lung cancer; in Kalk Bay, South Africa, where he had lived since 1978. Many of the plays (Thunder Rock, Shadow of Heroes) and movie scripts (Madame Bovary, Khartoum) that the Chicago-born Ardrey wrote, beginning in the 1930s, showed the fascination with man's roots that later led him into anthropology. It was his notion that...