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Died. Glenda Farrell, 66, actress; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Often cast as a tough babe with hair and heart of gold, Farrell began her screen career as a gangster's moll in the 1930 film classic Little Caesar. She went on to wisecrack her way through scores of Hollywood movies, including I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1937 and the Torchy Blane series. Weary of being typecast, she made a deft transition in the 1950s to motherly roles on television and Broadway...
...long section of the saphenous vein, one of four major veins that carry blood from the lower limbs to the heart. Effler began rapping out commands like a drill sergeant, initiating the procedure to shut down the patient's heart and turn its functions over to a heart-lung machine. Then, after stopping the still-beating heart with a split-second electric shock ("Juice!" he demanded), Effler began the operation that would save his patient's life-inserting pieces of vein cut from the leg to bypass two blocked coronary arteries, the heart muscle's principal source...
...required length. Then he sews it into place, first below and then above the obstruction. With the first graft in place, Effler repeats the procedure on the right coronary artery and checks to make sure that there is no leakage. This done, he disconnects the patient from the heart-lung machine, restarts the heart with a second electric shock and slips out of the operating room for a breather while an assistant cuts away the mammary artery. A few minutes later, Effler returns, implants that artery in the left ventricular wall and steps back so that his assistants can take...
...tell you," he warns a group of residents, "that if I ever find any one of you taking six hours for an uncomplicated case, you'll be looking for another appointment the same afternoon." His sense of urgency is understandable. The longer the patient stays on the heart-lung machine, the greater the damage to his blood cells and the higher the risk of postoperative problems...
...Chinese also seemed behind the news on a broad range of topics. A noticeable number of Peking's citizens, for example, are inveterate smokers. When it was suggested to them that smoking might lead to lung cancer, they replied, "Oh, no, you must be wrong." They had also missed the single most dramatic event of the decade. The surprised visitors discovered that no Chinese publication had yet announced that Americans landed on the moon...