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...injured in a fall on May 19. The neurologist asked him the names of the mayor of Los Angeles and the Vice President of the U.S. He answered correctly. On June 1 he was rushed to a second hospital where a craniotomy was performed. He had a blood clot on the brain...
...Each year almost 100,000 U.S. hospital patients die of pulmonary embolisms-blood clots that generally form in the leg veins and travel to points where they block arteries leading to the lungs. Many of these deaths probably could be prevented. The patients may be immobilized because of minor surgery or for other reasons. That lack of movement is the villain; blood that is pooled and stagnating in the legs tends to clot. It has been known for years that thigh-length elastic stockings aid in controlling clot formation. Now, in the Archives of Surgery, a research team...
...editor. Undirected manias find a focus. The town's self-respect is felt to be eroding. "People are bringing the shutters down from their attics and putting them back on their windows," Updike writes. His story ends: "The downtown seems to be tightening like a fist, a glistening clot of apoplectic signs and sunstruck stalled automobiles. And the Hillies are slowly withdrawing upward. ..They are getting ready for our attack...
Died. Dan Blocker, 43, Hoss Cartwright on TV's Bonanza series for 14 years; of a blood clot in the lung following surgery; in Inglewood, Calif. A former high school teacher, Blocker spent two knockabout years in Hollywood before getting a regular job as the Cartwright family's oversized middle son. The show became one of TV's most successful horse operas (400 million viewers in 84 countries) and made Blocker a millionaire...
...crazy, half-drunken major directs the inevitable massacre. Not only do his men slaughter the village chief when he approaches them with an American flag and treaty papers, but they also rape every woman and dismember every child in sight. And the audience is spared not a clot of all the blood. There is even one low-angle shot in which we see a woman's decapitated head fly towards us until it engulfs the entire screen. (This film, you'll recall, has been rated...