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Last week Professor Einstein trudged no more in the grounds of his beloved institute. A lingering gall-bladder infection sent him to the hospital. Blood began to escape from his aorta, the main artery. Shortly after midnight he muttered a few sentences in German. The night nurse could not understand, and the last words of the modern world's greatest scientist were lost. At 1:15 a.m. Albert Einstein, 76, died in his sleep...
Died. Dr. Albert Einstein, 76, the great mathematician and physicist; of a ruptured aorta; in Princeton, N.J. (see SCIENCE...
...blood coursed through the lung tissue, it gave up carbon dioxide and picked up fresh oxygen. Then it fell to the bottom of the cylinder. From the pool that formed there, another tube led the blood to a pump which boosted it back to Patient Richmond's aorta-the great artery in his chest...
From safety in outer darkness, the gunmen kept Remón's bodyguards pinned down for several minutes, then made their getaway in the Dodge. At Santo Tomas hospital doctors gave the President five transfusions−but it was likely that the bullet which pierced his aorta killed Remón even before he reached the operating table. Next day a throng of 40,000 followed his bier, borne on a firetruck to Panama City's old downtown cemetery...
...team from the New York Medical College (Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals) submitted an encouraging report on longevity to the A.M.A. meeting in Miami (see above). The aging process (marked by hardening of the arteries, high levels of fatty substances in the blood and dilatation of the aorta) tends to reverse itself after 60, the researchers found, and anybody who survives the "threshold age" by reaching 75 has a good chance of going on to reach the 100 mark...