Word: aorta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from 40% to 60% of syphilis victims pass through the primary and secondary stages without knowing what has hit them. Then the spirochete goes underground, to erupt at intervals over the years in new active phases. Finally, in about half of the untreated cases, it attacks the heart and aorta, the brain and spinal cord. If the victim does not die of heart disease, he may end his days as a lame, blind, insane, partially paralyzed patient in a mental hospital...
...Pathologist Jachimczyk's study showed that 1) Marshall had been hit on the head with sufficient force to knock him out; 2) there were bruises on his face; 3) he could hardly have shot himself five times, since one bullet pierced his aorta, one a lung, another the liver-any of which would have caused quick death...
Died. Ernie Kovacs, 42, mustachioed, cigar-frazzling master of madcap nihilistic humor; of a fractured skull and a ruptured aorta suffered when his car crashed into a utility pole; in West Los Angeles. Son of an immigrant Hungarian tavern keeper, Kovacs started off as an $18-a-week radio announcer in Trenton, N.J., scored his first TV success when he leered out at Philadelphia viewers while running a vacuum cleaner upside down over the studio ceiling, went on to win nationwide fame with three big-box-office movies (Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana...
...other dogs, also given heart attacks, to a small, simple pump that is timed by the electrocardiograph. When the heart contracts, the pump is relaxed and actually withdraws a little blood. When the heart relaxes, the pump gets in its "beat"' and forces blood through the aorta into the coronary arteries. After two hours on the pump, five out of these six dogs lived...
Died. Frank Fay, 64, wry stage and screen comedian whose up-and-down career was climaxed by his five-year performance as Elwood P. Dowd, the alcoholic confidant of that invisible, 6-ft. rabbit Harvey; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Santa Monica, Calif. A gentle man of deadly humor (his reply to Milton Berle's challenge to a duel of wits: "I never fight with an unarmed man"), Fay made his first theater appearance at four, by the 1920s had racked up record runs at New York's old Palace Theater, but after a series...