Word: lungfuls
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...talked about cigarette smoking and lung cancer, saying there was a new sign over Forest Lawn cemetery: THIS IS MARLBORO COUNTRY. He said that jealous religious types were trying to cash in like the singing nun, but no one was interested in a whistling rabbi. Trying folksiness, he told about the little town in Maine where he once lived: "The place was so small that Howard Johnson carried only one flavor...
...leadership of fiery Kurt Schumacher, took command after Schumacher's death, and though he attempted to woo the middle-class vote, suffered resounding defeats at the hand of Konrad Adenauer in the 1953 and 1957 elections, after which he increasingly delegated leadership to younger politicians; of a lung ailment; in Bonn...
...first statistical studies of the re lationship between smoking and lung cancer had an understandable impact: there are 65 million cigarette smokers in the U.S. with an understandable in terest in their own health. But that twelve-year-old beginning left room for argument; even though the research continued, there were a few reputable medical men who were convinced that the case against cigarettes had not been proved. Late in 1959 the American Cancer Society enrolled 1,078,000 American volunteers in a project designed to produce enough statistics to convince anyone. Last week at the American Medical Association...
Pale and still easily exhausted, Democratic Governor John Connally last week tried to tend to the business of Texas from a hospital bed in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital. His recovery from the bullet that ripped through his chest, wrist and thigh has been rapid. His punctured lung has re-inflated and is healing beyond all original expectations. Each day he is up and about for a bit longer. Half of the stainless steel wires used to stitch together his torn thigh have been removed. Doctors predicted that the Governor would leave the hospital in a week or so, should...
...four hours the doctors worked, cleaning the wounds, removing bone splinters from the Governor's chest cavity, stitching a hole in one lung, treating the wounds in his thigh and wrist. At week's end doctors said his condition was satisfactory...