Word: lungingly
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...Taylor, died early in April, Barnard is still satisfied that his surgical spectacular was a success. The death, he explained last week, was not directly related to the operation. Taylor died not because his body rejected the new heart but as a result of a blood clot in his lung. Up to the time of his death, his two hearts were still pumping properly...
Died. Vincent Sheean, 75, Odyssean foreign correspondent and author; following treatment for lung cancer; in Arola, Italy. Sheean covered many of the century's key events: the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler, the Chinese revolution of 1927, the Spanish Civil War, the London Blitz and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charing at the shibboleth of objectivity, he adopted a personal, partisan, generally leftist tone, though his fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best...
...Fort Campbell's flock of 5 million, there were almost 10 million birds at the military arsenal in nearby Milan, Tenn.. and another 1.5 million in the town of Paducah, Ky. The blackbirds battened on feed meant for livestock, and their droppings might spread histoplasmosis, a lung disease. Before retaliating, the Army issued an environmental statement, and defeated court suits brought by two humane societies (TIME, Feb. 24). Then the battle began...
...Journal has turned "radical"-is a labor publication that behaves like an independent magazine. Stillman and his three-man staff spend half of their time outside Washington interviewing miners and investigating working and safety conditions. The Journal has run stories on how to press a Social Security black-lung claim; it has also uncovered and documented conflicts of interest by the general counsel of a rival organization, the Southern Labor Union. Last year it defied a taboo and printed the complete list of the U.M.W.'s contract demands for the membership before the union began its bargaining sessions with...
...done by a similar flock of 7 million birds around the Army arsenal at nearby Milan, Tenn. Nor do the costs take into account two bird-borne diseases: gastroenteritis, which is often fatal to baby pigs, and histoplasmosis-caused by a fungal spore in the bird droppings-which produces lung damage in humans...