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...floor of the Red Sea, 45 feet below the surface near Port Sudan, the seven inhabitants of an underwater village celebrated last week the end of a full month beneath the waves. For the village's mayor, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 53, co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung that made modern skindiving possible, it was a double-barreled occasion. Down on the bottom, he celebrated his 26th wedding anniversary, and his wife Simone dropped in with a cake in a waterproof container...
Cousteau looks on the sea the way Daniel Boone looked on Kentucky, as a fine place to colonize. He thinks humans should do what porpoises, seals and other mammals have done already: adapt themselves to underwater living and beat the conservative fish at their own game. The Aqua-Lung, he says, is only the first step. It permits men to stay under water for considerable periods, but it involves a lot of expensive and bothersome apparatus. A better system, says Cousteau, would be to provide man with artificial "gills" through which his blood could flow and pick up oxygen. Even...
Under pressure for some time from health groups who maintain there is a definite connection between smoking and lung cancer, the companies frankly admitted they had made the decision on their own to avoid being forced into it by legislation. In effect, then, the action was taken primarily for public relations reasons...
John Richard Russell, 58, was serving a life sentence for murder in Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman when he developed cancer in his left lung. His right lung was also diseased, though not cancerous, and an acute kidney inflammation made it clear that he had not long to live. Not surprisingly, Russell accepted the suggestion of Dr. James Hardy that he volunteer to be the first human being to receive a transplanted lung. At the University Medical Center at Jackson, Dr. Hardy gave Russell the left lung of a patient who had just died of a heart attack...
...Hardy did not expect the transplanted lung to survive indefinitely. He hoped that before the graft was rejected it would be a crutch to help Russell's right lung recover. In fact, the surgeons were delighted to find that the transplanted lung worked with more than 98% of normal efficiency. Fortnight ago, Russell's kidney disease killed him. But in the last 18 days of his life, he had helped to make medical history...