Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco, surgery on the heart itself has leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped. Equally important has been the successful attack on rheumatic fever, achieved mainly with penicillin. Ranking next, Dr. Wilkins listed ground gains against high blood pressure, now controlled with drugs in most patients, so that surgery is practically disappearing...
Reporting on studies at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Stewart Wolf summed up: "We have found that the man likely to have a heart attack is highly competitive in his attitudes, if not in his behavior; concerned with self-sufficiency and with doing things on his own-and usually the hard way. Looking for new worlds to conquer, he takes less than the usual satisfaction from achievement, and especially he has no time to enjoy satisfaction between chores...
...Pittsburgh (4-1-1)-contained Army's offense (statistically the nation's best), dominated the second half with a wide-open attack...
When she was 3½ years old, Renata contracted a case of polio that prevented her from walking until she was six (even today her right leg is still weak, which sometimes hampers her onstage). The polio attack and her father's absence (he returned when she was ten, left again when she was 18) left Renata desperately dependent on her mother. One of the bitterest shocks of her childhood, she remembers, was going to see Giuseppina after a mastoid operation. A surgeon had sliced through a facial nerve, paralyzing one side of her mother's face...
Died. Sid Simpson, 64, Republican Congressman from Illinois, who was running for re-election this year; of a heart attack; in Pittsfield...