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...innovations is an operation on arteries leading to the brain; it is done to ease the effects of a stroke and to reduce the likelihood that the patient will have more strokes. Though some strokes are the result of hemorrhaging from burst arteries, the great majority are caused by clot shutdowns where the arteries are inside the skull and inaccessible. But Dr. DeBakey thinks that as many as 20% of the clots occur in the carotid and vertebral arteries, below the floor of the skull, where the surgeon can get at them through an incision in the neck...
Died. Lucian ("Sonny") Banks, 24, journeyman heavyweight boxer from Detroit, whose main claim to fame was his 1962 knockdown of Cassius Clay (Clay kayoed Banks four rounds later); of a blood clot in the brain, three days after he was knocked out in the ninth round by Leotis Martin; in Philadelphia. Banks was the 64th fighter to die of ring injuries in the last five years...
...Basketball Association. Center Russell, four times the league's Most Valuable Player, has been complaining of a mysterious stomach ailment. Forward Tommy Heinsohn, the team's top pointmaker for three out of the last five years, has missed 14 games with a torn ligament and a blood clot in his foot. And Guard John Havlicek has water on the knee...
...McCrea universe, the galaxies are the breeding place of matter. Deep in their hearts new atoms appear, gathering together to form new stars or adding to the mass of old ones. Eventually the galaxy reaches a limit, breaks up and expels into space a clot of matter that forms the embryo of a young, growing galaxy. In accordance with some principle that McCrea does not claim to understand, new galaxies are born at the proper rate to fill the vacant spaces left by the general expansion of the universe...
...older people who have arteriosclerosis, Dr. Marshall explained, there may be a clot in, say, the left subclavian artery. Then the blood pressure beyond the clot, and in the left arm, falls below normal, lower than the pressure in the right ascending vertebral artery. This sets up the steal. If the left arm demands extra blood because of unwonted exercise, it gets some by drawing it in a reverse flow down the left vertebral artery, stealing it from the right vertebral artery at their junction just below the brain...