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...chest for a broken rib that may have pierced a lung, and finally they look at the limbs. The heart and the "great vessels" adjoining it are usually not examined until much later-if at all. Yet in many cases there is a potentially fatal injury to the aorta, which, if promptly detected, can be corrected by today's advanced surgery...
Occupants of autos involved in smashups can be subjected to deceleration forces hundreds of times greater than that of gravity. In sudden deceleration, the sturdy chest wall usually suffers no injury unless it strikes something like the steering wheel; neither does the heart. But the aorta, the largest of the body's blood vessels, is not rigidly held in the area below its arch (see diagram). While the forward motion of the chest wall and heart halts suddenly when the car smashes to a stop, some parts of the aorta keep on moving forward for a fraction...
Died. Albert Lingo, 59, chunky, bespectacled Alabama state trooper who, as former Governor George Wallace's state public-safety director from 1963 to 1965, led troopers armed with tear gas and electric cattle prods in bloody attacks on civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham and Selma; of a ruptured aorta; in Birmingham. "I am not a Nigra-hater," Lingo once said. "I've played with 'em, I've eaten with 'em and I've worked with 'em, but I still believe in segregation. You can say that some of my best friends are Nigras...
Died. Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, 77, World War II hero and one of the great figures of British military history; of a rupture of the aorta; in Slough, England. Though Montgomery was more popular, Alexander was judged by many to be the outstanding Allied general of the war. In 1940 he conducted the evacuation at Dunkirk; in 1942 he commanded the British Army's fighting retreat through the Burma jungles. Later that year, he masterminded the defeat of the Afrika Korps, and in 1944 he was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean...
...heart, all damaged by rheumatic fever beginning 15 years ago. A donor heart became available after Kathleen Martin, 15, shot herself in the head during a quarrel with her 18-year-old husband. By extraordinary coincidence, Dr. Cooley had operated on her in 1962 because a narrowing of her aorta was restricting the outflow from her heart, which was becoming enlarged to meet its extra work load...