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...Thurmond, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, or even Georgia's Richard Russell, whose sometimes courtly, sometimes acid-tongued combativeness has been badly missed by the Senate's Southerners in their fight against the voting rights bill. Russell has been out for almost four months with emphysema, a lung ailment, but last week he announced that he felt fit enough to run for a seventh term next year...
...clamped shut well beyond the point where arteries branch off to supply the brain. The lower part of the body could be deprived of its blood supply long enough to let the surgeons cut out the diseased section and replace it with knit Dacron tubing. When the heart-lung machine became a practical adjunct in surgery, the horizon was suddenly widened. It became possible to operate anywhere along the aorta, while the machine supplied blood continuously to the brain...
...propaganda boss, Murrow proved an able administrator who insisted on playing every story straight for the rest of the world. Then, in 1964, he was forced to resign after a cancerous left lung was removed. Ever since he had gone into broadcasting Murrow had smoked from 60 to 70 cigarettes a day. "I doubt very much that I could spend half an hour without a cigarette with any comfort or ease," he once declared after narrating a program linking cigarettes to cancer...
Died. Edward R. Murrow, 57, radio and TV's best known newsman; of lung cancer; at his farm in Pawling, N.Y. (see PRESS...
...statistical fact that heavy cigarette smokers are more likely to die of lung cancer than are nonsmokers has been known for years, but no one has yet been able to pinpoint the process by which smoking exerts its lethal effect. That the death rate from cancer of the bladder is more than three times as high for smokers as for nonsmokers has been recognized more recently, and it has seemed even more difficult to explain. Yet, ironically, it is the hard to explain bladder cancers that have backed up statistics by yielding the first biochemical evidence that smoking...