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...doctors in Brantford, Ont., the mark was the identifying surface symptom of a rare and frightening condition called the Sturge-Weber syndrome. The stains are caused by an excessive growth of blood vessels, and those in the skin are matched by others under the scalp and on the surface of the brain. In a few weeks, or at most months, a child with such a mark develops disabling seizures and convulsions. Even if these can be controlled by drugs, the dosage must be so heavy that by the time he is ten or twelve he will be oversedated...
Fluent Prattle. The Brantford doctors sent the baby to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. There, when Michael was 41 months old, Neurosurgeon Bruce Hendrick cut out the entire right half of his brain. Hendrick by now has done 17 such operations, or hemispherectomies. The youngest patient was 26 days old and weighed five pounds...
Treadmill. In Brantford, Ont., William J. Farr admitted stealing $24, explained that he needed the money to pay the court costs of a previous conviction...
Triangle. In Brantford, Ont., Gordon Schwitzer, testifying at his wife's bigamy trial, explained to the court that he thought her first husband was "just another boy friend who didn't want me around...
...Yugoslavs waiting to board the Radnik are from Vancouver, Windsor, Toronto, Port Colborne, Brantford and London. Many are men who left their families behind them in Yugoslavia before the war. Others are oldsters pining for their native land. Most came to Canada as adults; they have had difficulty learning English, continue to feel like strangers. Some are politically conscious Communists. Many are not. But none of the emigrants believes that Tito's regime can be more tyrannical than the Karageorgevitch dynasty whose oppression they fled...