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...series of tiny blood clots forms in a man's brain while he sleeps. He is unaware that anything has happened, goes on living. But he is a victim of what Dr. Walter C. Alvarez calls "one of the commonest diseases ... a slow petering out toward the end of life...
...doctors recognize it as a common and distinct disease. It is high time they did, writes Dr. Alvarez in the current issue of Geriatrics. And when Dr. Alvarez speaks, doctors listen respectfully, for the immensely popular Mayo man is one of the shrewdest diagnosticians...
...brains of victims of this creeping apoplexy are found, after death, to be covered with hundreds of "infarcts" where a tiny blood clot has choked off the surrounding tissues. (As an old lady once told Alvarez: "Death takes little bites.") Symptoms: overnight the victim ages quickly, becomes querulous, may lose his self-respect, may deteriorate morally...
...type of machine which promises to outpower the cyclotron. Prosaically named the "linear accelerator," it is a tube which shoots its nuclear bullets straight instead of in a circle. The idea came from two crack young physicists, M.I.T.'s Julius Halpern and California's Luis W. Alvarez, who have developed separate versions of the machine...
...dispute over British Honduras, to be heard in April at The Hague, when the court meets for the first time with these Assembly-elected judges: Charles De Visscher (Belgium), J. Philadelpho de Barros e Azevedo (Brazil), Sir Arnold D. McNair (Britain), John E. Read (Canada), Hsu Mo (China), Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha (Egypt), J. Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador), Jules Basdevant (France), Fabela Alfaro (Mexico), Helge Klaestad (Norway), Bohdan Winiarski (Poland), Sergei B. Krylov (Russia), Green H. Hackworth (U.S.), Milovan Zoricich (Yugoslavia...