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AILING. Frank M. Johnson Jr., 58, director designate of the FBI. The day after President Carter nominated him, the Alabama federal district judge was discovered to have an aneurysm, or abnormal swelling, of his abdominal aorta. After a 70-minute operation performed by Houston'. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, in which the weakened portion of the aorta was replaced by a Dacron graft, Johnson was reported to be in "excellent" condition. He is expected to recover completely in six weeks. If his return to health is delayed Johnson said he would ask Carter to "secure someone else for the directorship...
...central figure, Jean Cardinal Daniélou, was an internationally famous Jesuit theologian, a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, a personal friend of Pope Paul VI, and an honored "immortal" of the French Academy. After he died of an aneurysm one afternoon in May, supposedly on the street, Daniélou, 69, was lavishly eulogized by the French episcopacy, the Jesuit Superior General and the Vatican...
That, in the opinion of the University of Rochester's Dr. Robert M. Greendyke, is long enough for the huge forces that result to cause the inner lining of the aorta to rupture and balloon out into an aneurysm, or to be virtually sheared off at a point such as its isthmus immediately below the arch...
...Surgeon General's report. Based on a review of more than 2,000 research studies made in the past three years, the report repeats that cigarette tars can cause lung cancer; it depressingly documents further evidence that the weed can bring on peptic ulcers, aortic aneurysm, cancer of the larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus and bladder. A two-pack-a-day smoker aged 55 to 64, says the report, has 34 times more chance of dying of lung cancer than a nonsmoker. But an equally grave danger may be coronary heart disease caused by the massive doses of nicotine...
...Harvard's "dean of deans," who at his retirement in 1963 had devoted 41 years to counseling undergraduates, housing freshmen together for mutual aid, putting bright young professors in upper-class houses for intellectual stimulation, and opening a social and study center for commuter students; of a ruptured aneurysm of the heart; in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada...