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...procedure, called deep hypothermia, was first tried in 1951. It did not come into wide use at that time because the development of the heart-lung machine provided a means for keeping the blood circulating while surgery was performed. In infants, however, use of the heart-lung machine throughout an operation raises two serious problems. The device can damage blood cells that an ill baby cannot afford to lose. It also requires several clamps and connections that crowd the already tiny area in which the surgeon works. Therefore hypothermia was revived in Japan in 1964 and at the University...
...surgical part of the five-hour procedure took only 31 minutes and was uncomplicated. Making a tiny incision in the heart, Replogle sewed a dime-sized patch of Dacron cloth over the hole. After the incision was closed, he hooked Oliver up to a heart-lung machine for the first time; it pumped warm blood through his body and washed the potassium out of the heart tissue. The effect was immediate. Oliver's heart began to beat slowly, then gained momentum; within 30 minutes the beat was back to normal...
Died. Albert Glen ("Turk") Edwards, 65, bruising 260-lb. offensive and defensive tackle for the old Boston Redskins (later the Washington Redskins) from 1932 to 1940; of emphysema and lung cancer; in Kirkland, Wash. Edwards' aggressive pursuit of opposition quarterbacks and ball carriers helped his team to three championships. Later he served as Redskins' head coach for two seasons and in 1969 was elected to the football Hall of Fame...
Died. Walter E. ("Jack") Rollins, 66, country-and-western lyricist whose biggest hits were the kiddie favorites Peter Cottontail, Smokey the Bear and Frosty the Snow Man; of lung cancer; in Cincinnati...
Miller, on the other hand, was one of their own. A victim of black lung disease, after 26 years in the pits, he had become the chief spokesman for the miners in their battle to win compensation for black-lung disability. He campaigned on the theme of bringing the union closer to the miners-literally and figuratively. He promised not only to reduce the president's $50,000 salary, but also to relocate the union headquarters from Washington, D.C., to a spot nearer the mines. Miller, who had horrified the traditionalists by arguing for stronger controls of strip mining...