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...Site. These negative findings pinpointed the site of the damage: "the area of Broca"* (see diagram), which controls many components of the complex processes that result in speech. Like most of the brain lying near the surface, Broca's area gets its blood supply from one of the countless branches of the middle cerebral artery. The particular branch supplying Broca's area is not much thicker than the lead in a pencil, and if in Ike's case this was already narrowed by arteriosclerosis, a tiny clot would be enough to shut down the flow. That...
...total shutdown to Broca's area had lasted six minutes or more, Eisenhower would have lost the power of coherent speech; at normal blood heat, brain cells cannot survive longer than that without oxygen-bearing blood. Evidently the shutdown was incomplete or for a shorter period because, although the cells in Broca's area had been damaged, the damage was not severe: overnight the doctors observed improvement in the President's speech. Adequate blood flow to the oxygen-starved cells had been restored...
...Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described how the updraft caused by the helicopter presses the chemical against the underside of the infested leaves,"precisely where it is needed...
...fifth Rockefeller enterprise, Helicóptero Comercial, S.A., was formed only last week. Its aim: to contract with São Paulo coffee growers to spray their plantations against the deadly broca borer. Rockefeller's technicians found out that ordinary aerial spraying was missing the bugs, but that helicopters, hovering just over the trees and beating the chemical dust right down to the ground, could get them every time...
With General Messing, ex-Minister of War, as umpire, Professor Bernard Cuneo, a surgeon, and Dr. Elie Broca, a physician, "lunged, thrust and parried for a good half-hour." Finally the surgeon, who ought to have known better, let himself be punctured by the physician. The duel was over...