Word: taran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II Soviet fighter pilots boasted of a maneuver called taran, i.e., ramming an enemy plane when ammunition was exhausted and parachuting out. In the absence of reliable witnesses of such tactics, Western air-force men were apt to suspect the Russians of "shooting a line." Last week a startled group of Westerners saw a Soviet pilot perform the taran and live to lie about...
...ultramodern operating setup was a dream come true, not only for Harvard-trained Dr. Taran, but for Mother Mary of Kevelaer and the 46 sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who run the Long Island hospital-sanatorium. When it was founded in 1937, in a rambling mansion and stables given to the nuns by Shipowner Carlos Munson (a Quaker), it was a home for child victims of heart disease, and little more...
...Young Are Different. Mother Mary of Kevelaer, herself a victim of rheumatic fever, teamed with Dr. Taran to build it into an all-inclusive institution for the total care and rehabilitation of children and young adults crippled by heart disorders-some born with defective valves or blood vessels, others damaged in childhood by diseases. They added wing after wing, until now St. Francis has 200 beds, making it the biggest specialized hospital of its kind in the U.S. It is nonsectarian in selection of its patients, most of whom come from poor homes, where rheumatic fever strikes oftenest...
...Taran began by making a sharp distinction between heart disease in the young and in the aged. In the young, he felt, many more disorders were of a type that could be corrected by surgery; gradually the ravages of rheumatic fever (usually scarring and narrowing of valves) were added to the list. But the process is often long and tedious. Many patients at St. Francis stay for two years, and some may be a year or more in a special room, breathing 50% oxygen. No matter how long their treatment may take, the youngsters at St. Francis can count...
Thanks to penicillin, which makes it possible to prevent many recurrences of rheumatic fever, and to recent advances in surgery, Dr. Taran believes that medical science is well on the way to conquering heart disease in the young. To the surgeons at St. Francis, the new operating theater will be a powerful reinforcement...