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...Assistant to the President Sherman Adams, Deputy Assistant to the President Major General Wilton ("Jerry") Persons. The diagnosis: Eisenhower had suffered an occlusion of a small branch of the middle cerebral (brain) artery on the left side; the occlusion, or blockage, might have been caused either by a small clot or a vascular spasm (see MEDICINE). In short, though the White House would not use the word, the President had suffered a stroke...
...most improbable that he would have had a heart attack in the first place. And in elderly patients who have heart attacks, there is usually simultaneous involvement of the brain's arteries, so that parts of them are inelastic and narrowed, offering points of resistance that invite clot formation...
...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 a bigger artery branch was not involved was shown by Ike's keeping full command of functions controlled by adjacent brain areas...
...President got, even in the first stages of his illness, was a mild sedative. Beyond that, he is expected to stay on anticoagulants. In the case of a mild stroke such as Ike's, recovery is apt to take place-barring a new stroke-simply because the clot has dissolved. Even in more serious cases, when brain cells are damaged or destroyed, partial recovery is possible, as neighboring brain cells take over the function of damaged cells and other blood vessels take over to supply the damaged area with blood...
Died. Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, 66, Broadway and Hollywood playboy, onetime millionaire real estate speculator in cinema chains; of a cerebral blood clot; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A restless, imaginative developer of entertainment properties, Blumenthal made a fistful of millions by selling Cinemagnate William Fox the idea of a theater chain...